Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classic Jiang moment--casual, charming, energizing. He is, after all, a man who can recite from memory sections of the Gettysburg Address--in English. His training as an engineer has given him a reverence for technology and a fluency with the idea of an information economy that make him an ideal leader for a Net-ready nation. And his instincts have always been behind Zhu's economic-reform program, despite opposition from conservative heavyweights in the party. Even today he relies on the advice of his American-educated son Jiang Mianheng...
Marius taught for two years at Gettysburg College, then took a professorship at the University of Tennessee...
...party of airheads and egomaniacs. What a travesty of democracy that these shallow characters aspire to be candidates for public office, or already hold it! With people like them, "In God We Trust" is an even more urgent watchword for the welfare of our country. MIDGE RITTER Gettysburg...
Criticizing those who believe "the best government is no government," the author of Lincoln at Gettysburg said powerless leadership is "panicky, arbitrary and random," rather than "confident, fair and just...
...Lessons from History, gives participants a chance to commune hypothetically with Honest Abe and other great leaders. The sessions are billed as metaphors for dealing with contemporary management problems. Tigrett's most popular program, at about $1,000 a person, is a workshop at the Civil War battlefields in Gettysburg, Pa. On the fields that saw 51,000 men killed or wounded, groups of executives listen to a Lincoln impersonator, clad in black and wearing a stovepipe hat, field questions about his critical decisions...