Word: stout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Agrokomerc, like most industrial enterprises in Yugoslavia, was in effect the personal fiefdom of the local Communist Party chief. In this case the boss was Fikret Abdic, 48, one of the most influential figures in the northwestern republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the firm's chief executive since 1967. Stout and graying, Abdic ruled Agrokomerc in imperial style, often issuing $ directives from a villa on the Adriatic coast, to which he commuted, attended by secretaries and bodyguards, in a customized...
...tell-you-about-the-time anecdotes. Already some of the book's barbed comments have provoked a flurry of attention and virtually guaranteed that it will be a commercial success. But the book is more than just a settling of old scores. It adds up to a stout defense of two now tarnished notions that O'Neill came to epitomize: the New Deal liberal ideal that government's duty is to look out for the little guy, and the virtue of old-fashioned back-room politics...
Professor Kezios offers his students a stout principle for ethical dilemmas like the one at Morton Thiokol: "Raise hell, stand firm." But he acknowledges that such doctrine is easier said to students in school than done by them in the working world: "They don't have any clues as to how they are going to behave out there." In Los Angeles, Michael Josephson, a Loyola Marymount University law professor who has founded a new institute for ethical studies, is grappling with the same reality gap. "It's easy to say you want to make a lot of money and also...
...single automobile chase," notes the director dryly. "No gun duels. The biggest piece of action is trying to pass the port." On a snowy Dublin evening during the Christmas season, Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta attend his maiden aunts' annual dinner dance. He is a smug, possessive "stout tallish young man," who is preparing some after-dinner remarks with allusions to Browning and classical antiquity that, he fears, will sail over the heads of his unsophisticated audience...
...beginnings. The way "some kids hang around pool halls," Conner says he hung around the marinas begging rides. At 44 he still likes to refer to sailing as a "good way to hang out." A junior membership was finally extended by the San Diego Yacht Club, and the stout and uncoordinated boy with no real love of the sea began tweaking and fiddling and driving the sport crazy...