Word: riding
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...life's sweetest pleasure? One man ventured that it surely was falconry. Genghis Khan -- who was not Genghis Khan for nothing -- answered, "You are mistaken. Man's greatest good fortune is to chase and defeat his enemy, seize his total possessions, leave his married women weeping and wailing, ride his gelding, and use the bodies of his women as a nightshirt...
...which began its own investigation in 1991, taken for a ride? Trying to head off accusations that it profited from the scheme, a CIA spokesman declared that "there was no evidence of criminal wrongdoing" by the agency's operatives. But, he said, an internal probe uncovered "instances of bad judgment and poor management on the part of some CIA officers involved, and appropriate disciplinary action followed." Station chief Campbell has retired; McFarlin has resigned...
...BRIGHT-EYED 14-YEAR-OLD, AKIRA OGASAWARA JOINED THE JAPANESE army, partly because the recruiters promised him a ride in an airplane. Instead of getting his flight, he was assigned to a secret medical unit that performed experiments on prisoners in Manchuria. Now 65 and a construction worker, he is still tormented by the memory of his two years with Unit 731 as it worked on developing a "germ bomb," which Tokyo hoped would help win World War II. "I myself did not put any prisoner under the knife," he tells a mostly middle-aged audience of about 50 people...
...gross. About the show itself, he is less enthusiastic. He is delighted with the role and the approach of English director Howard Davies. "On the physical side," Chamberlain says, however, "the producers, Fran and Barry Weissler, have treated it like summer stock. They have tried to ride very heavily on my name...
...work teams rather than masses of undifferentiated laborers are the order of the day. The trend is likely to go much further among knowledge workers. Says John McCann, a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business: "Sometimes I use the analogy of the cowboy. He used to ride around the West signing on with different ranches when they needed work." Similarly, he thinks, cybercowboys will ride the information superhighway, not working regularly for anybody but contracting with one corporation after another to do specific, limited jobs. McCann goes further yet to endorse the vision of a Japanese author...