Word: thingness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...become is up to you, based on the choices you make.” He characterized a leader as someone willing to understand and care for those led, but more importantly, as someone who has “moral courage.” “The hardest thing you may ever be called upon to do,” he said, “is stand alone among your peers and superior officers. To stick your neck out after discussion becomes consensus, and consensus ossifies into groupthink.” And while Harvard’s commencement speaker, Secretary...
...cautionary tale' doesn't even touch what this is," says Brownell of the Schuler crash. "This is a worst-case scenario for what happens when people, mothers and fathers, have alcohol abuse and addiction issues that go untreated ... and unrecognized by loved ones. The amazing thing is that more cases like this don't happen every day." (See TIME's alcohol abuse covers...
...London, I was working as a waiter at night. When my tutor found out, she submitted my name to the Quakers, and they then sent me a check for 40 pounds, without any strings attached. I thought as a recipient of charity, that this would be a very dignified thing to do for others...
Interior Minister Malik warned on Monday, Aug. 10, that al-Qaeda is trying to install its own "chief terrorist" as the next leader while the Pakistani Taliban lies in disarray. "It will take some time for [the Pakistani Taliban] to regroup," he said. "The other thing which is a bit worrying is that al-Qaeda is getting grouped in the same place, and now they are trying to find out somebody to install him as the leader ..." Al-Qaeda has long wielded influence over Mehsud and the Pakistani Taliban, using the tribal areas along the Afghan border as a hiding...
...financial crisis came about because we got complacent, depending on all-knowing financial experts - mortgage lenders, Wall Street sharpers, the Federal Reserve - to run our system expertly. But then the experts did the same thing, imagining that they had laid off all their risks on other experts. Until finally the last expert down the line turned out to be just another greater fool, and the system crashed...