Word: peculiarly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, the transformation has been such a success that it was the subject of a recent case study by the Harvard Business School. According to the study's co-author, Karen Wruck, the product that Landmark sells is "an abrupt or jarring change, like an 'aha'"--a "peculiar" one, certainly, but patently marketable. But Landmark, the study notes, has challenges ahead. It will have to gauge the effectiveness of its volunteers in expanding the business and weigh the need to raise outside capital. Perhaps, Wruck says, it will need to go public...
...extraordinary man, a lifelong technocrat who was purged twice, then clawed his way to the top, despite irking cadres across the country with his abrasive personality and his low tolerance for dishonesty and inefficiency. At stake is the very future of the Communist Party and the viability of its peculiar experiment in free-market socialism. But by all accounts, Zhu is one of the few top leaders who have the drive and decisiveness to hold the system together. Admired from Tokyo to Washington for his brains, integrity and ability to cut through swaths of red tape...
...members, whom colleagues and commanders praised for their flying skills and professionalism. And all the 35 EA-6B flyers interviewed said they had never heard of anyone flying too low, too fast or doing improper stunts -- what Marine pilots call "flat hatting." It did strike some Pentagon officials as peculiar that there is a nickname for something the pilots say they never do and never heard of others doing...
...will still do the things that make the Parisian vacation so special, that is, adapting the ammenities of a decidedly different culture to our own peculiar American tastes...
...clear the peculiar system of "Joint Committees" and "problem solving" our leadership promotes is a failure because of the obvious power disparities between management and labor. It needs to be replaced by the tried and true system of strong union stewards fully backed up by our union's leadership...