Word: stung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration has also come under mounting criticism in Congress and elsewhere for its policies in El Salvador. Since 1979, right-wing death squads that are backed, and in many cases staffed, by the military and by government security forces have murdered thousands of people suspected of leftist sympathies. Stung by charges that it has not pressed the government of Alvaro Magaña hard enough on the matter, the White House sent Under Secretary of Defense Fred Iklé to San Salvador two weeks ago to demand action. In a major policy statement delivered in Dallas after his return...
...opening 40 minutes, the booters looked ready to play their kind of match. Princeton stung them early, when Tiger midfielder John Bettino intercepted a bad pass at the half stripe and sent the ball to fellow halfback Tom Poz, who converted the breakaway...
Published at the tail end of the most painful recession since the Great Depression, In Search of Excellence could hardly have been more timely. American business, criticized for its sluggish productivity growth and stung by foreign competition, was searching for solutions. For a while, books on Japanese management, like Theory Z, were the rage. Then many executives became intrigued with The One Minute Manager, a piece of pop psychology claiming that employees could be spurred to greater productivity by "one-minute praisings" and "one-minute reprimands." Written by Management Consultant Kenneth Blanchard and Psychologist Spencer Johnson, Manager has been...
Retired Admiral Bobby Inman, former deputy director of the CIA, speculates that the Soviet Union was so stung by its inept handling of a similar, 1978 Korean airliner intrusion over their territory that individual air-defense units now have standing orders to direct any interlopers to land and to shoot them down if they do not. "Their priorities are different from ours," Inman says. "They place highest priority not on human lives but on preventing penetration of their airspace." The Kremlin had time last week to learn what was happening at the lower command levels, Inman suggests...
...tinged with sexism. Said General Manager Monte Newman of Chicago's WMAQ: "The people in charge were incredibly dumb." When Craft negotiated with KMBC for the $35,000 job in 1980, she told the station's management that she had resented being "made over" as a bee-stung-lipped, bleached blond for a previous post as a CBS network sports reporter in 1977-78. KMBC'S management assured Craft that it would not seek to change her image, then turned her over to Media Associates of Dallas for training in makeup and hairstyling; the station also...