Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...criticism of the motives for buyouts. Richard Thevenet, vice president of Stern Stewart & Co., a Manhattan- based management efficiency consultant, put it bluntly: "Managers have an incentive to underperform before a buyout. Records of dramatic turnarounds after an LBO raise a troubling question. Why were these managers unable to accomplish these feats before the LBO? Shareholders bear all the costs, but not the rewards of the turnaround...
...session moves to Geneva, the world body's European headquarters, it would be the first time the assembly has done so in protest of an action by the host country. Arab diplomats say they have the necessary majority to accomplish...
...year he surged. He wanted to accomplish everything. He was having a good time, and he loved it," said Matthew F. Drummy '89, who roomed with Corwin last year. "He had an awareness that he might not be around for that much longer, and he wanted to live his life to thefullest...
...could be more specious than Bush's desperate claims in the waning days of the campaign, "If I win, it will be a mainstream mandate -- that's what this election is all about." A mandate represents a covenant between the candidate and his constituency about what he plans to accomplish. But almost all the causes Bush embraced were both negative and irrelevant to the White House; it would be a bizarre ritual, to say the least, if a President Bush solemnly recited the Pledge of Allegiance each time he stepped into the Oval Office. Dukakis' presidential agenda was almost...
...amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit," said Harry Truman. While Americans for the moment seem to have abandoned this axiom, Mikhail Gorbachev has picked it up. In a private White House ceremony not long ago, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze handed President Reagan a Russian box. Inside was a glittering gold medal, the first struck in the Soviet Union commemorating the new arms agreement. "The General Secretary wanted you to have it since you are the architect of the INF treaty," said Shevardnadze. Reagan's surprise was as great as his gratification...