Word: unpreparedness
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The blow, when it finally fell, was unexpectedly jarring. Despite years of agonized Western debate about combatting terrorism, months of mostly fruitless diplomatic maneuvering, weeks of U.S. warnings and finally days of ominous public silence, the world still seemed unprepared when the bombers struck. Although Libya had felt the sting...
In Berlin, a shattered discotheque; in Rome and Vienna, airline terminals strewn with bodies. So far, the U.S. has been spared the horror of a major terrorist attack. But as hostility intensifies between the U.S. and Libya, the shadow war could come closer to home. Security experts warn that extremists...
Cappuccir adds that "students feel free to saythey're unprepared. Very few professors harass,heckle or criticize them."
St. Patrick's Day began badly for Boston Globe Editor Michael Janeway. Over breakfast that Monday, Jack Driscoll, his deputy, confided that he was leaving the paper. After 15 months in the paper's top post, Janeway, 45, still depended heavily on the 28-year Globe veteran, who was immensely...
It is the element of surprise that is most unsettling to executives confronted by sudden catastrophe. Says Fink: "The savviest chief executive in the world often falls victim to a kind of paralysis when a crisis strikes." Any kind of conditioning may thus be comforting in a crunch. Says Jean...