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...saying to the institution where the person is at the moment that he or she is thinking of leaving, which immediately damages the person's position there: "X is not loyal," "X does not think we're good enough...," etc. I have observed a number of instances where superior candidates for positions at some of our most distinguished universities have been forced to withdraw their names because there have been rumors of their candidacy. Once an institution decides to have everything in the open, many of the best potential candidates disappear...
...interested to see the origin of the expression O.K. explained as "Old Kinderhook" and then as "Oil is Korrect." Another possible explanation is that O.K. derived from World War I. Each night, soldiers would report the number of deaths in their group to their superior. Thus O.K. would stand for "0 Killed...
...Middlesex Superior Court awarded cancer patient Gena Glicklich nearly $400,000 in damages, and determined that Dr. Alan R. Spievack--one of the UHS doctors--was responsible for $339,979 of that figure...
...shorter, the water is in a confined area, the wind is shiftier, and there is a greater emphasis on strategy and tactics--and the fact that Keane can easily move from boat to boat, as well as amend his style and still win, is a tribute to his superior skills...
...answer to The Riddle of Violence shows that violence can be superior to non-violence because force can stop suffering, while inaction or non-violence may allow it to continue. The Rhodesian climate--social, economic and ethical--obviated passive resistance as a successful method to end the subjugation of its Blacks; to abolish the inequity, violence was necessary. Now, Kauna warns, South African whites must decide by which measure they wish to succumb. For as this leader has now proven twice in his lifetime, the advocates of minority rule in Black Africa will inevitably face a day of reckoning