Word: truisms
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...worst basket-case bank and its most notorious corporate zombie. It also sets a strong precedent for increasingly open, shareholder-oriented corporate takeovers. By deviating so spectacularly from the Kabuki script that has governed corporate mergers for decades, the heads of Japan's largest banks are finally upholding a truism that theater and capitalism seem to share: the end of a drama is more satisfying when no one knows the outcome in advance...
...still a novelty. "I learned the Silbo playing in the street," he recalls. "If you didn't want to do a lot of climbing up and down to find people, you had to." But as roads, radios and telephones arrived, the Silbo declined to the point where an evolutionary truism - use it or lose it - was about to kick in. To rescue the tradition, the regional government in 2000 made learning the Silbo compulsory, and today Darias teaches it to the 164 students at Lomada School. He coordinates the work of two Silbo teachers to cover the island...
...truism about the President is that he is steady, clear, reliable, someone who knows what he believes and sticks with what he knows. The truth about him is more perplexing. He campaigned as a bipartisan conciliator; yet under his presidency, the U.S. has become even more culturally and politically bifurcated. He promised a foreign policy based on humility and contempt for nation building; but his Administration has embarked on the most ambitious nation-building project since World War II. He pledged centrist, inclusive conservatism, and yet he has supported a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and has courted...
There is an axiom in American politics that says whenever a sitting President is running for a second term, the election is more a referendum on him than a judgment on his opponent. President George W. Bush has taken this truism to a new level. With just under a year to go before Nov. 2, 2004, Americans are already finding ways to show how passionately they feel about their President. In August, KB Toys rolled out its George W. Bush Elite Force Aviator doll, a 12-in. action figure in full naval flight gear...
...rich get richer and the poor get poorer—a truism since the dawn of civilization—but nowhere more evident than in the Massachusetts housing market since the state abolished rent control in 1994. A short history lesson: for years the powerful real estate industry had wanted to end rent control, but real estate tycoons and wealthy companies looking to make even bigger profits were not exactly garnering sympathy. Enter a powerful public relations campaign, in which every elderly widow or recent immigrant dependent on renting part of their home to make ends meet was marched before...