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Strategy: Definitions and Meaning
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strategic planning in the business world: George Steiner
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"the art of
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, Liddell Hart arrives at this short definition of strategy
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In Moltke's formulation, military strategy is clearly a means to
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the means by which policy is
effected, accounting for Clauswitz’ famous statement that war is the continuation of
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"resources"
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employment of troops
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Once the enemy has been engaged, attention shifts to tactics.
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strategy refers
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strategia,
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"generalship.
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William M. Tweed
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achine politician
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the political machine cultivated its base of support among
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late nineteenth century,
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stole millions of dollars from the city through bloated construction projects and
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Much of the construction was riddled with corruptio
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-buildings, improvements in streets, parks, sewers,
and docks
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Bell Gully - Limited Partnerships Bill - safe harbours not safe enough
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-called "control rule"
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, otherwise known as "safe harbours"
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e control rule and the need for safe harbours.
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Gully would like to see New Zealand provide a more secure environment for limited partners by re
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This rule has led to uncertainty and costs for market participants in the administration of limited partnerships worldwide
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be to do away with the control rule
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imited partners lose the benefits of limited liability
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main concern with the proposed legislation is the adoption of the so-called "control rule",
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eneral partners transact the business of the partnership while limited partners are passive investors and are liable only to the extent of their capital contribution to the partnership.
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general and limited partners.
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Abernethy believes the rule prohibiting limited partners' involvement in management is confusing and outdated
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DOC to axe 56 jobs - Forest and Bird - 21 Apr 2008 - NZ Herald: The latest New Zealand Employment and Jobs News
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past 20 years the amount of land managed by DOC had doubled, but staffing levels had not increased.
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DOC should receive contingency funding for fighting fires
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uch of the $8 million "overspend" was the cost of fighting an unusually high number of fires due to drought conditions in conservation areas, which DOC staff had to put out.
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While government departments needed to stay within budgets, any job losses in conservation were of concern "because DOC is already under-funded to carry out its core conservation work", he said.
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scientists and technicians - after the agency overspent its budget by $8 million.
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epartment of Conservation is axing the jobs of 56 people
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Editorials | Articles:: JOEL BRINKLEY: The world leader in corruption is - Cambodia - Cambodian Information Center
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he shiny mantle of impunity resting softly on the shoulders of the rich and well-connected will begin to fall away
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f Cambodia hopes to join the ranks of the world's prosperous and respected nations, it must enact - and enforce - an anti-corruption law.
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Cambodians deserve better
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ontinually promises but never delivers.
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pressing him to pass a comprehensive anti-corruption law
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won re-election to a new five-year term.
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But in none of them is the corruption so pervasive, even pandemic.
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he economy is growing. The nation has been stable for more than a decade now, which is no small accomplishment.
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why else would the police make no effort to solve any of these crimes?
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No one has proved that government officials are behind them.
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Impunity is a word that comes up over and over in Cambodia.
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a Cadillac Escalade SUV in this exceedingly poor country is quite likely to be well connected.
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And the police are too intimidated, too deferential, to the wealthy and powerful."
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his goes to the whole culture of impunity here. Who you are, who you know, is more important than following the law.
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'S21': Cambodia's Bloody Hands (washingtonpost.com)
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he seems to say through this compelling, heartbreaking film, is fulfilled by choosing simply to bear witness.
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one something more difficult in addressing the proper role of an artist in the face of unspeakable acts
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officials didn't admit to the genocide until last year, after one of them had seen this film)
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provided a vital historical record in the face of decades of denial
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Director Rithy Panh
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atharsis or closure.
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y strike viewers as distressingly relevant in light of recent reports from Iraq.
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human psychology
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most frightening and dispiriting aspect of "S21" may not be the atrocities themselves but the ease with which otherwise decent men were able to commit them and their resistance to their own accountability.
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some of them recruited and indoctrinated as teenagers
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unspeakable atrocities they and their countrymen suffered – the arrests, the interrogations, the torture, the ritualized "confessions" of counterrevolutionary treason (even falling in love, one man explains, was considered a crime against the state)
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he result is a deeply moving, provocative meditation on cruelty and suffering, all the more effective for being so starkly rendered.
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brutal genocides in history
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emotional and troubling reunion with his former guards and interrogators
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an artist named Nath, is the center of "S21,"
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ol Pot, instituted a series of murderous purges throughout the country, ultimately taking nearly 2 million lives.
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, the independent state of Cambodia fell to the Khmer Rouge, an agrarian communist movement that had engaged that country in a civil war since 1970.
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Cambodia during the 1970s testifies not only to human dignity and resilience but to cinema at its most intellectually honest and morally necessary.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
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Where had our "John Wayne" learned to become such a guard
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John Wayne of an earlier generation -- because of his "Wild West" cowboy macho image in abusing camp inmates.
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macho and brutal guard
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The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
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finding that prisoners with a high degree of authoritarianism endured our authoritarian prison environment longer than did other prisoners.
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to thoroughly enjoy the power they wielded, yet none of our preliminary personality tests were able to predict this behavior.
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hostile, arbitrary, and inventive in their forms of prisoner humiliation.
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good guys" who did little favors for the prisoners and never punished them
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tough but fair guards who followed prison rules.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
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version of a priest than a real priest, thereby adding to the uncertainty we were all feeling about where our roles ended and our personal identities began.
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he priest's visit further blurred the line between role-playing and reality
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volunteered to contact their parents to get legal aid if they wanted him to, and some of the prisoners accepted his offer.
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he explained that the only way to get out of prison was with the help of a lawyer.
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Son, what are you doing to get out of here?
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n a prison chaplain to evaluate how realistic our prison situation was, and the result was truly Kafkaesque
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The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
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o plan how to foil the escape.
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, was going to round up a bunch of his friends and break in to free the prisoners.
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we had to contend with was a rumored mass escape plot.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
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Let's use psychological tactics instead of physical ones." Psychological tactics amounted to setting up a privilege cell.
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he rebellion had been temporarily crushed,
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The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
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stripped the prisoners naked, took the beds out, forced the ringleaders of the prisoner rebellion into solitary confinement, and generally began to harass and intimidate the prisoners.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
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he guards met and decided to treat force with force
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The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
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The guards had to handle the rebellion themselves,
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so began to taunt and curse them.
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cells by putting their beds against the door
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unprepared for the rebellion
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The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
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prisoners' backs while they did push-ups
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ush-ups were often used as a form of punishment in Nazi concentration camps, as can be seen in this drawing by a former concentration camp inmate,
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ush-ups were a common form of physical punishment imposed by the guards to punish infractions of the rules or displays of improper attitudes toward the guards or institution
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The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
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guards, too, were feeling out their new roles and were not yet sure how to assert authority over their prisoners.
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prisoners were rudely awakened from sleep by blasting whistles for the first of many "counts.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
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a new power-laden role
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"Cool Hand Luke." Mirror sunglasses prevented anyone from seeing their eyes or reading their emotions, and thus helped to further promote their anonymity
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The Stanford Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
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potential seriousness of their mission and of the possible dangers in the situation they were about to enter, as, of course, are real guards who voluntarily take such a dangerous j
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r own set of rules
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ey were free, within limits, to do whatever they thought was necessary to maintain law and order in the prison and to command the respect of the prisoners.
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specific training on how to be guards
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ramatic change in appearance of having one's head shaved can be seen on this page.
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It is also a way of getting people to begin complying with the arbitrary, coercive rules of the institution. T
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