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...sometimes in the same speech, that allies and the American public alike were bewildered. One can only guess at the effect on Saddam. Bush announced that he had "had it" with Iraq's treatment of American diplomats in Kuwait, but later added, "I'm not trying to sound the tocsin of war." He also said that "we're prepared to give sanctions time to work" but that for Iraq the "sand is running through the glass." Which implication was authentic; which was for public relations consumption? And by whom...
...impending recession and end his own slump in the opinion polls? Bush branded those suggestions as "the ultimate of cynicism and indecency." When questioned by reporters about whether he was attempting to prepare the American people for war, Bush denied it. "I'm not trying to sound the tocsin of war," he said. "I want to have a peaceful resolution to this question. I've indicated we're prepared to give sanctions time to work, and I'll repeat that. But I'm not ruling out further options...
Maurice finally sounded a tocsin last March, warning that profits would decline for at least the first half of 1989. He also announced plans to sell off much of the firm's $360 million consulting investment. Calling the move "ham-handed," Alan Gottesman, an advertising analyst at the Paine Webber brokerage firm, noted that Maurice "managed to depress morale and performance in the consulting arm at the same time that he was letting potential buyers know they could pick up the firms at a discount." Fearing a messy auction, clients began to switch to other consulting agencies. So far, only...
Defending the introduction of capitalist reforms, Deng Xiaoping once said it did not matter whether cats were black or white so long as they caught mice. Now the Chinese leader is determined that his cats will be red. Four months after his crackdown on the prodemocracy movement, the first tocsin for a "purification" of the Communist Party has been sounded. The Beijing municipal party headquarters announced that all its members must reregister by the end of 1990, and those deemed "hostile and antiparty" will be purged. Diplomats estimate that as many as 50,000 of the party's members...
...great thing about Tocsin was that the leadership understood the Harvard state of mind, a cultivation of idiosyncrasies. Harvard was a space within to work, to cultivate yourself. Your personal energies were respected. It would have died if they had been heavy-handed...