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...problem is that you have a system that requires a certain degree of passivity on the part of the rank and file," Barrett says of the senate hierarchy. He criticized Bulger's "top-down management style that runs contrary to all the precious thinkings about leadership...
...Wulf-Mathies called it "a political victory." Minister of Special Tasks Rudolf Seiters, the government's chief negotiator, warned that the settlement would slow the country's economic growth. When federal, state and local costs were added up, he said, the government outlays would increase $10 billion this year. Rank-and-file union members will now have to vote on the deal...
...begun. Last week Lloyds Bank announced that it was considering making a $6.6 billion bid for Midland, Britain's third largest bank, besting the $5.8 billion offer made by Hong Kong-based HSBC Holdings. If the deal goes through, the Lloyds-Midland combo, with assets of $197 billion, will rank 18th in the world...
Formally known as Victim Souls of the Unborn Christ-Child, the Lambs were founded in 1988 by the Rev. Norman Weslin, a Roman Catholic priest who retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of lieutenant colonel. His guiding principle ^ is the "mystical theology of the victim soul," meaning that Christ has often acted through seemingly insignificant persons or groups, like the Lambs. The Lambs' membership, mostly Roman Catholic, is divided into three groups: about 30 full-time activists, who travel around the country from clinic to clinic and jail to jail; 250 part-timers, who go on active duty...
...postwar era took place back to back, almost continuously: 1958 in Brussels, 1964-65 in New York City, 1967 in Montreal and 1970 in Osaka. And then, in the neo-Luddite, small-is-beautiful era since, we have had nothing -- or nothing but piddling, second-and third-rank expositions that reflected (and self-fulfillingly confirmed) the tapped-out, lowered-expectations zeitgeist...