Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because, his boosters say, Tenet's rise was fueled by smarts, loyalty, a taste for truth telling, and a commitment to reform that somehow didn't cost him the respect of the CIA. In 1987 he was a 34-year-old Senate intelligence-committee staff member when chairman David Boren chose him to be the new staff director. Boren put him in charge of auditing clandestine CIA programs. Tenet, says Boren, forced the agency to shut down two major covert operations after his staff found that case officers opposed U.S. policy goals and possibly allowed informants to siphon funds. Since...
...going to head up the struggling company. Schmidt is credited with helping build Sun (1996 sales: $7 billion) into a hardware behemoth. Soft-spoken and given to windy though usually hysterical jokes, he has a long trail of success: millions in the bank, oodles of patents, the respect of the industry. Why jump to Novell? Friends say there's only one other thing he wants: Bill Gates' scalp...
...gone around to undergraduates in the past few years, I would say that the one criticism I've heard more than others has been not enough flexibility with respect to electives," Rudenstine says...
...respect the intent of the change from eight to seven--they're trying to allow for more flexibility, but I don't think lowering the number of courses by one really does that," Hurwitz says...
...wear hard hats. Kelly knows how the palaver goes in the kind of bar that doesn't have ferns, the boozy, unchanging gab about sports, women and the System that defines the deep, edgy pessimism of blue- collar men. "Einstein" is what they call Billy, out of class respect and class resentment. But as shots are heard at the end, it is unclear whether he will make it back to law school...