Word: troika
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...what if reindeer could fly? Even the smallest sled or troika weighs at least 500 pounds; and "Santa Claus" could not weigh in at under 220, even in the off-season. Moreover, if Santa were to take as many as 1000 trips, he would still have to carry at least 458,000 toys with him every time he took flight. Weighing these factors against the pull of eight reindeer (even nine, counting Rudolph), we see that each animal would have to produce more than 35,000 pounds per square inch of thrust. If that is so, then these eight...
...President promised not to raise "golf balls" in anybody's throat, but did. Nancy cast her eyes down. Meese, the new Attorney General, beamed at everybody. White House switchboard operators, advancemen and journalists, all acknowledging some admiration of the troika era, nibbled shrimps and watched the shadows along the White House lengthen and history move...
...troika do it? The experts, including one of the world's pre- eminent power arbiters, Henry Kissinger, predicted that such a division of authority around the President might not work. It did, and now many of the same people are predicting that power will be too centralized under the new chief, Don Regan. Washington is slow to learn...
...that made the thing go," says Meese, a thought that all three endorse. They loved the man, to put it in its purest terms. They would do almost anything to help him, and almost anything to avoid embarrassing him. Reagan did not want strife in this staff, so the troika worked about as hard at getting along with one another as they did on anything...
...troika worry about their successor? Not so far. One of the lessons they all carry away from the White House is that the presidency can work in different ways as long as the people at the center believe they are doing something that is more important than themselves...