Word: propellent
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...many cases they get raises just because a counterpart at another firm did. Says Donald Hambrick, professor of management and organization at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business: "They end up trying to outdo one another. So what you get is a circle of CEOs who propel one another's pay upward...
Will the radical measures planned in exile be accepted at home? Rather than propel change, the shock of invasion may hinder it. "To cope with what has happened," says Hasan al-Ebraheem, "many have come to think of this time as a temporary setback, like an earthquake. Psychologically, people will want to recreate the past as exactly as they can in order to forget what has happened. That is what we must resist. This is a golden opportunity, the invasion's silver lining. If we give in to sentiment and let the old ways come back while saying that...
...care about, an aging entrepreneur haunted by specters from films nearly two decades old. Because this is a movie about loss, Pacino must relinquish the steely calm of his youthful Michael; now he is Lear without the grandeur. Nor can G3 find suave new twists and characters to propel the plot and lure the teens. Garcia, an electric actor, swaggers so handsomely that he makes one wish for another sequel. But he is helpless to strike sparks with Sofia Coppola (the director's daughter), whose gosling gracelessness comes close to wrecking the movie...
...Moscow faces a winter of shortages, politics and pity propel U.S. aid in a historic gesture. -- Republicans pull back from playing racial politics as Bill Bennett exits. -- A Mafia don is collared...
...than men, the idea persists in the public at large. When homosexuals are discussed in the media, men are almost always the focus, with women at best an afterthought. The very word gay has come to imply male, and AIDS has ironically exacerbated that distortion, even as it helped propel women to the forefront of gay leadership because so many of the male leaders were sick or dying...