Word: william
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...debating how to restructure the organization to respond more rapidly and effectively to international crises, the U.S. hasn?t shown clearly whether it's committed to acting as part of a community or whether it prefers to cut its own deals," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Acting in concert with others requires a willingness to listen to different ideas on how a problem might be solved, but there?s a perception in the U.N. that Washington will sidestep the international body when...
...families of the dead aviators agree. "There's a coziness and collusion between the Marines and Bell because of the Marines' reliance on Bell," says William Straw, father of the 29-year-old Marine pilot killed in the Texas crash. The Straw family knows something about military aviation. William, a 1967 graduate of the Air Force Academy and a former test pilot, won the Distinguished Flying Cross for piloting a C-130 cargo plane through bad weather and enemy fire to resupply a beleaguered U.S. outpost in Vietnam. Both of Robert's grandfathers won that decoration in World...
...says and his disarming, wide-toothed smile and how hard he works to make you like him. That's how he does it. And in part, that's how he got to this corner-office suite with the view of Rockefeller Center--the former digs of legendary CBS founder William Paley as well as Karmazin's predecessor, Michael H. Jordan--and why, when Viacom completes its acquisition of CBS, he will be running the day-to-day operations of the newly minted media giant...
...might hit glitches along the way. Four years of unemployment, say, or having to cultivate your comedy skills to writing for "America's Most Wanted." Welcome to the life of former Lampoon vice president William L. Oakley...
...tests were also widely interpreted as an attempt to press for more economic assistance amid a deepening food crisis. "Washington and its allies in the region believe it?s worth dangling economic carrots rather than facing down an unpredictable state in a potentially catastrophic confrontation," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "If we leave North Korea starving but isolated and it tries in desperation to break out through launching aggression, the only option would be to fight them - and that would cost the U.S. and its allies in the region far, far more in human and economic terms than...