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There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.
Hanna Rosin
Blame
Conflict
Debate
Ending
Enemies
Old
Circle
Signs
King
Past
Other
Latent
Spill
Finger
Pointing
Open
Between
Calamity
Over
Himself
Adviser
Court
Always
Nascent
His
Chewing
Errors
Who
Each
Reign
Inner
I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.
Lee Iacocca
Decision
Drop
Hell
Back
Harry
Atomic
Atomic Bomb
Had
He
Make
Himself
Adviser
Always
Go
Truman
Did
Should
Bomb
Lives
Save
My advisers built a wall between myself and my people. I didn't realize what was happening. When I woke up, I had lost my people.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Myself
People
Lost
Had
Between
Adviser
Built
Woke
Up
Wall
Happening
Realize
The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar.
Robert Fisk
Son
Book
Speak
Presidency
Unknown
Spent
Syrian
Ministry
Emerged
Archives
Ten
Ten Years
New
New Book
Dead
Adviser
Foreign
Still
His
Years
Hitherto
Confidential
Cannot
Information
Who
Published
Interpreter
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
Thomas Sowell
People
Brainy
President
Conservatives
Some
Seem
Adviser
How
Been
His
Impressed
Very
Quite
Might
Many
Reassuring
Including
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.
Al Michaels
Father
College
National
Security
Johnson
Delivering
Town
She
Smith
Adviser
Because
Condoleezza
Condoleezza Rice
National Security
Rice
Her
Right
Speech
At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream.
Alexa Chung
Fashion
Me
Writing
School
Opportunity
Journalist
Dream
Vogue
Adviser
Said
Provided
Wanted
Asked
Fulfill
Careers
I worked as an interior designer. I worked as a furniture salesman. I worked as a financial adviser. I worked as a painter and decorator - that wasn't for very long. I was a baker for about four-and-a-half years.
Anton du Beke
Interior
Financial
Long
Furniture
About
Baker
Adviser
Years
Salesman
Very
Worked
Decorator
Painter
Designer
I had a small investment in Twofold, following guidance from my professional advisers. I had, however, claimed no tax relief of any amount in regard to this investment. Given the concerns raised about it, I have now instructed my advisors to withdraw me from the scheme with immediate effect.
Bradley Wiggins
Me
Guidance
Twofold
Immediate
Claimed
Relief
Following
About
Given
Small
Scheme
Had
Investment
Instructed
Withdraw
Concerns
Adviser
Advisor
However
Effect
Any
Tax
Regard
Tax Relief
Professional
Now
Amount
Raised
Some financial advisers say anyone who may move in less than seven years should not take out a reverse mortgage.
Charles Duhigg
Financial
Seven
Say
Out
Some
Take
Mortgage
Adviser
Reverse
Years
Than
May
Move
Anyone
Should
Less
Who
Massachusetts has prohibited most financial advisers from using titles like 'certified senior adviser,' and some of the largest insurers, including MetLife and Genworth Financial, have similar rules.
Charles Duhigg
Financial
Prohibited
Rules
Some
Similar
Like
Massachusetts
Most
Adviser
Senior
Titles
Certified
Using
Including
Largest
Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.
David Kay
Aggressive
Action
President
President Kennedy
Recommended
Robert
Robert Kennedy
Course
Adviser
Ambitious
Than
Estimate
Fortunately
Less
Chose
Kennedy
President George H. W. Bush soon launched Operation Desert Shield, sending an enormous contingent of troops to Saudi Arabia. But once there, what exactly were they to do? Contain Iraq? Attack and liberate Kuwait? Drive on to Baghdad and depose Saddam? There was no clear consensus among foreign policy advisers or analysts.
Greg Grandin
Liberate
Drive
Enormous
President
Analyst
Once
Arabia
Exactly
Troops
Attack
Clear
Contain
Saddam
Soon
Baghdad
Policy
Operation
Adviser
Foreign
Contingent
Foreign Policy
George
Shield
Were
Iraq
Kuwait
Sending
Bush
Desert
Among
Saudi
Consensus
Saudi Arabia
Within days of Richard Nixon's inauguration in January 1969, national-security adviser Kissinger asked the Pentagon to lay out his bombing options in Indochina. The previous president, Lyndon Baines Johnson, had suspended his own bombing campaign against North Vietnam in hopes of negotiating a broader cease-fire.
Greg Grandin
Own
Lyndon
President
Negotiating
Broader
Nixon
Out
Hopes
Pentagon
Kissinger
Lay
Johnson
Previous
Had
Days
Adviser
Within
His
Campaign
North
Options
North Vietnam
Suspended
Against
January
Richard
Asked
Inauguration
Vietnam
Bombing
The Iranians had to come to the forefront of supporting and helping Iraq fight Daesh with advisers, with other help, logistical support for our armed forces, and we very much welcomed that.
Haider al-Abadi
Fight
Other
Our
Logistical
Had
Support
Supporting
Armed
Come
Armed Forces
Welcomed
Forces
Adviser
Forefront
Iranians
Iraq
Very
Much
Help
Helping
I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
Hamilton Jordan
Work
Political
Matters
Cocktail
Jimmy
Jimmy Carter
Topical
Those
Carter
Parties
Adviser
Go
Years
Cook
My Ph.D. thesis problem was to determine if the DNA content of rat tissues increased if there was B12 in the diet. This problem was suggested by my adviser based on the observation that thymine could replace vitamin B12 in a lactobacillus.
Irwin Rose
Problem
Rat
Increased
Determine
Could
Observation
Content
Adviser
Replace
Diet
Thesis
Based
Suggested
Sometimes, when you look at an adviser's failings or perceived failings, I think the tough question you have to ask as a journalist is, 'What does this say about the president?'
Jodi Kantor
You
Sometimes
Tough
Journalist
Think
President
Say
About
Perceived
Failings
Look
Adviser
Does
Question
Ask
In interviews with dozens of black advisers, friends, donors and allies, few said they had ever heard Mr. Obama muse on the experience of being the first black president of the United States, a role in which every day he renders what was once extraordinary almost ordinary.
Jodi Kantor
Day
Experience
Every Day
Black
First
Few
Every
President
Extraordinary
Interviews
Once
States
Obama
Allies
Had
He
Almost
Adviser
Said
Heard
Friends
Role
Donors
Being
Ordinary
Which
United
Ever
United States
Dozens
Muse
When I was 14, I told my careers adviser that I was going to be a world champion boxer. Of course she laughed.
Joe Calzaghe
Champion
World
Laughed
She
Course
Adviser
Boxer
Going
World Champion
Careers
One of the things that voters have said about Donald Trump, since he has no government experience, is that he will be able to surround himself with good advisers.
John Dickerson
Government
Good
Experience
Will
One Of The Things
Able
About
He
Since
Voters
Himself
Adviser
Said
Trump
Surround
Donald
Donald Trump
Things
I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film.
John Schlesinger
Me
Dinner
Looking
Party
Met
Dinner Party
Hustler
Scenes
Had
He
Put
Invited
Him
Adviser
Because
Been
Help
Film
Street
The Clinton years were not an economic Nirvana; as chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers during part of this time, I'm all too aware of mistakes and lost opportunities.
Joseph Stiglitz
Time
Opportunities
Mistakes
Lost
Too
President
Nirvana
Economic
Council
Part
Adviser
Were
Years
Clinton
Chairman
Aware
I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser.
Lisa Caputo
Good
You
Happy
Financial
Tell
Retired
Adviser
Because
Got
Debt
Happened
Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to the same view that you do. I'm happy to tell you that I practice what I preach. I would have never thought I'd end up in financial services. I'm happy to tell you that my debt is retired. That happened because I got a good financial adviser.
Lisa Caputo
Good
You
Trust
Happy
People
Financial
Thought
Somebody
Partner
Practice
Preach
Interview
Financial Services
Out
Tell
Would
Find
Never
Retired
Adviser
Because
Got
Go
End
Up
Debt
Same
Happened
View
Who
Whom
Services
In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.
Loretta Young
Medium
Television
Performance
New
Adviser
Opposed
New Thing
Which
Agency
Thing
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