Word: singlemindedness
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Sophocles' Electra is no Hamlet. She doesn't agonize over whether to avenge the murder of her father Agamemnon by killing her mother Clytemnestra. She just does it (or rather, has her brother Orestes do it). Leveaux, who has brought his crisp staging of the tragedy from London to Broadway...
"I strongly disagree with those who would argue that some sort of Faustian bargain has been struck whereby public figures are fair game, any time, any place," Michael J. Fox said at a congressional hearing Thursday. It's hard to sympathize with the singleminded paparazzi who, Fox testified, "chased me...
The main problem with airlines is prosperity. The carriers find themselves flush with cash, a condition they rather like. The profits are rolling in now because of a gritty, singleminded and profoundly painful campaign of cost cutting over the past five years, in which airlines have done everything from "outsourcing...
As these various airlines pursue their ever more difficult contracts, what drives almost every move they make is a manic, singleminded desire to push costs down. Executives vividly remember the period from 1990 through 1994, when U.S. airlines lost $13 billion--more than the entire industry had made in its...
But other council members say that PUCC's influence has been decidedly negative. They charge that the group's singleminded pursuit of its agenda has divided the council, adding that PUCC's progressive stances have caused the council to lose sight of its primary purpose: making life better for Harvard...