Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their shyness was understandable. The CIA usually works in the shadows, particularly in the byzantine, often dangerous Middle East, where too much publicity about what the agency does can get a spy killed. Over nine days of grueling negotiations at Wye, however, Tenet and a small group of agency operatives became the key diplomats who hammered out the most contentious part of the interim accord: the Palestinians' promise to crack down on terror- ists so Israel would withdraw from more West Bank land. Tenet, said Bill Clinton, "had an unusual, almost unprecedented role to play because of the security considerations...
...crowd of diplomats gathered in the Wye Plantation's conference room two weeks ago for the ritual photo op that launched the latest Middle East peace talks, two men were missing: CIA Director George Tenet and the agency's Tel Aviv station chief were hiding out upstairs, waiting for the reporters and photographers to clear out so they could slip back into the meeting unnoticed...
...owners argued that the right to withhold pay by imposing a lockout was a tenet of labor...
...central tenet of Sachs' advice has been to reject policy formulated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a group of 182 countries whose purpose is to promote global financial stability through such activities as money lending and financial policy review...
...society--consumed by the nature versus nurture effects on behavior--came up on the side of nurture, believing that personality was shaped by the environment. Anything related to genetics sounded disarmingly like eugenics and Hitler's notion of racial superiority. And so society welcomed psychotherapy, with its egalitarian tenet that we are all "brothers" whose personalities are shaped (or misshaped) by our surroundings. As Dolnick observes, "Level-headed men and women occasionally succumb to giddy excitement over the stock market or the million dollar prize." Or psychoanalysis...