Word: vacuums
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...Israelis feel the present situation can't continue, but they have few strategic alternatives. Destroying the Palestinian Authority will not diminish the threat from Hamas or make Palestinians more pliant. If anything, it could create a power vacuum in which local warlords would assume power and there would be an upsurge in violence with fewer mechanisms of control...
...changes at HLS certainly weren’t made in a vacuum. Other law schools began to change in the past few years, and competition became stiffer as the number of applicants to law schools nationwide dropped. “There’s no question that it’s much more competitive for law schools now than it used to be,” says David W. Leebron ’77, Dean of Columbia University Law School and 1979 HLS graduate. “Harvard is in some sense responding to the competition, and that?...
...picture thinking can lead to actions that will help a company survive, even prosper, when the economy is in the doldrums. Unfortunately, few companies know how to refocus to take advantage of this opportunity. Instead, a knowledge vacuum occurs, because workers don't have the information they need to improve their company's performance. I've advised hundreds of companies, and never have I seen a situation in which the employees did not want to know more about how the company really works: How do we make money? Are we profitable? Why? Why not? They want to know. They feel...
...other hand, the generals may be quite happy to see a week president, because that would give them more power. The military is going to move to fill any political vacuum that arises, and nobody believes that Megawati will last very long. And waiting for her to fail are, on the one hand, ambitious politicians like parliamentary speaker Amien Rais, and on the other hand, the generals...
...scrambling for replacement acts. But the passing of the a cappella group that also included GOP Senators Trent Lott and Larry Craig offers huge upside potential for Orrin Hatch: The Utah Senator was never invited into the quartet, but his dreamy spiritual hymns can now fill the vacuum of the post S-Squared...