Word: verbalizations
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...most accounts, John Mack is a tenacious, intimidating, demanding, no-excuses kind of manager. Get called into his office, and you better be prepared. Show him up, and you've made an enemy for years. His verbal dressing downs while at the helm of mighty Morgan Stanley left underlings nearly needing a change of underthings. He is, it seems, just the tough s.o.b. to rescue scandal-ridden Credit Suisse First Boston--and restore a badly needed ounce of credibility to Wall Street. Hello, Mack the Knight...
...years old, I was one of them. I bonded with this wonderful new music coming out of their boxes, and with the local disc jockeys. I never met these guys, but they were my older brothers, my pop mentors, the men whose high energy and rhyming jive provided a verbal equivalent to early rock 'n roll...
...have several different events a day and the president and staff have to get up for each of them," says one aide. "By the end it?s all a blur." Other White House aides believe that the number of events wears Bush down, accounting for some of the verbal diggers he?s taken...
...succeeds quite as well as resorting to arms - and that creates an incentive for nationalist extremists to keep on fighting to redraw Balkan borders. The Macedonian insurgency began with small groups of men infiltrated from NATO-controlled Kosovo, who then launched attacks on security force personnel. And despite some verbal wrist-slapping from NATO, the reward for that strategy may turn out to be a place at the negotiating table to determine Macedonia's future. The failure of the alliance to act on its harsh criticisms of the rebels also signaled an ambivalence to the mainstream ethnic-Albanian parties...
...There was a bit of a stink over what he actually said and how it was reported. It's possible that Powell could have made a verbal slip. On the other hand, at the core of what Powell is saying is common sense - if there's a trust problem between Israelis and Palestinians, there have been some tripartite observation groups involving the CIA, Palestinian Authority and Israelis that have been successful. It's a model that has worked. I think he was looking at a practical solution to a practical problem, of creating independent verification for each side's claims...