Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Legler, the sailing coach at Tufts, calls Kean easily one of the five best skippers in New England, and Horn raves about the captain's leadership abilities. "He has done an awful lot to teach his skills to others and has worked towards bringing the team together as a unit," Horn says...
...instead of blending into a cohensive unit, the play becomes a potpourri of assorted themes and characters. Only occasionally do sparks ignite, but they only leaves the audience with an unquenched thirst for more. The conversation between Harold Ryan and his son Paul (Leo Luberecki) as Ryan tells of his adventures the audience of for a moment, as the pair's first-ever meeting proves moving. But the momentum doesn't last. Besides, we've seen enough housewives breaking out on their own and we've seen enough of macho men destroyed and replaced by the scientific, mechanized heroes...
...more, the Pakistanis reportedly have sent patrols into Iran to learn more about the flurry of activity, just as the Iranians are said to be sending their own scouts across the border. Early last December, two Soviet intelligence agents were killed during a chance encounter with a Pakistani intelligence unit patrolling the border. At about the same time, Salim Ahmed, a Pakistani spy who had ventured into Iranian territory, was captured by Soviet and Iranian patrols and executed in Zahedan...
...more widely encouraged effort to sabotage policies by leaks of classified information in the middle of a war. As National Security Adviser I thought it my duty to help stanch these leaks. " Having said that, he notes: "I did not realize, or bother to inform myself, that a unit existed to investigate leaks and that its members essentially had no other duties. But even had I known this, I would not have found it improper that the White House sought to protect its classified information so long as it operated within the law." Besides, he adds, in the Nixon White...
...year, at least the guys feel close to each other. If that had happened in pre-season, it would have been better." His leadership and personality were in large part responsible for this change, which saw a team overcome its petty on-court bitterness and, develop into more cohesive unit...