Word: penchant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think he had a penchant for being flexible in style but completely rigid in his actual decisions on matters of division and controversy at the University," says Damon A. Silvers...
Postwar demobilization is a very American idea. We have a penchant for demobilizing the day after the war is won. After World War I, we rapidly demobilized and disengaged from Europe. With no countervailing American force to contain the rise of the monstrous totalitarianisms of the '30s, the way was cleared for World...
...there also an old German penchant to see yourselves as victims, excusing what you did because you were only following orders...
...anything to judge by, Henry Rosovsky's view of the modern American research university is something like the popular view of the U.S. Marine Corps. Harvard, and a few institutions like it, are the few and the proud, an elite handful of educational institutions. We--Rosovsky has a penchant for the first person plural--advance the front lines of human knowledge, and we never wallow in the trenches...
...Milken's clout grew, financial journalists described him as the most powerful financier since J.P. Morgan. But Milken's penchant for working by his own rules and controlling every situation proved to be his downfall. Drexel's huge profits and free-wheeling methods attracted the attention of federal prosecutors who believed that, among other offenses, Milken fed inside information to a network of traders to manipulate the stocks of his target companies. Prosecutors first snared Dennis Levine, a Drexel investment banker, who pleaded guilty in 1986 to four counts of profiting from insider trading. The Government then got Levine...