Word: personent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...find out what kids are up to, replicate it, and then sell it back to them. The kids like rap? Let's give them Vanilla Ice! Usually the youth-oriented products that adults come up with are all too obviously a grownup's conception of what a young person wants. The suits are, after all, suits. Getting a handle on youthful culture is like trying to hold onto one's adolescence. It slips away -- it's meant...
...look stupid and foolish. I'm not saying you've done all the bad things that have happened, but I lay it all on . you anyway because you've always said that you're responsible for order in Haiti.'' Taken aback, Cedras was silent. Then, says a person present that day, ''he tried some country lawyer games about how to interpret Governors Island, and Larry walked out.'' Late Friday night, TIME has been told, Cedras and Francois tried another ploy. A new letter was drafted and this time actually sent. Cedras and Francois would resign after all, but not until...
...Diller's, whose nearly $10 billion bid for Paramount tops Viacom's by about $2 billion. While Malone stressed his continued support for Diller, he described the Paramount brawl as ''very peripheral'' to TCI's main concerns. Asserting that ''we wish Barry well,'' Malone called Diller ''the only person on earth who can make Paramount worth what is being bid for it.'' The proposed Bell Atlantic-TCI marriage will face months of scrutiny from armies of Washington regulators, Justice Department attorneys and state and local agencies. The key question: whether the nuptials would violate antitrust standards. While the deliberations will...
...rather than to have it fed to you through others all the time.'' If the day ever comes when he talks to students of Government about running the White House, Regan will hammer the point that too much attention is paid to theories of management and not enough to personalities. ''At least three-quarters of this job is personal,'' he says. ''One person replacing / another on a job can make an entire difference, good or bad. I would tell them, in deciding why things happen, to make more of a study of the people involved.'' For all his wariness, Regan...
...approach.'' Instead, he argued, the goal is to make the Kremlin unsure that it could launch a strike that would knock out America's capacity to retaliate. The immediate goal of SDI, Perle agreed, is ''not the defense of the nation as a whole, not of every city and person in it, but the defense of America's capacity to retaliate.'' Thus he saw a more realistic mission for a space-based defense system: guarding ''our critical defense installations, ballistic missiles, command and control facilities.'' He added that ''a 50% effective defense could make a significant and I think vital...