Word: tocsins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...Tocsin was a huge success. The hard-core beginning of 10 to 40 members grew. With our first walk, to protest nuclear weapons, everyone wore blue armbands. It was moving because it showed people were listening. Very few campuses if any had more technocratic rationalists...
There was a Tocsin reunion on Sunday night...People [who returned] were very diverse, but we all felt some deep linkage to Tocsin and that spirit. Politics is something that implicates you as a whole...
...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...