The politicians seem to be acting like Generals, ready to fight the last war.
Most research chemists are like generals playing molecular trench warfare, firing out thousands of new compounds in a grueling advance toward the elusive billion-dollar molecule.
Like generals fighting the last war, the Fed fears inflation.
Too often bosses, like generals, dislike being away from the heat of battle, and use their past heroic status to undermine their successors and lobby for their own return.
The duo spent years together building Veritas, focusing on the defense sector with help from retired generals like Barry R.
They made the Georgetown Hoyas look like the Washington Generals.
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And generals, like captains of industry and certain kinds of celebrities, wield a certain kind of power.
Only the very rich--Roman senators, imperial generals and the like--had the diversified investments that allowed them to escape the poverty and dangers that engulfed virtually everyone else.
Apparently these generals were not, like their prime minister, devoted to Napoleon's maxim, "Frappez la masse, et le reste vient par surcroit , " which, vis-a-vis strategic or other problems, bids one to concentrate upon the essence, with assurance that all else will follow in train, even bits of string.
Like Mr. Lee, the Soviet generals whose Cold War adventures he used to follow from afar are now also retired.
So there are - like the general public, there are generals in either camp as well, and it will be interesting to see who Gates recommends because of that.
"It reminds me of a quote from ' The Night Of The Generals' that went something like 'What is admirable on a grand scale is abhorrent on a small scale', " commented another CNN reader known as Davidji, referring to the 1967 movie about a Nazi murder investigation during World War II.
Commanders in the field like the top officers in Central Command and Iraq, Generals John Abizaid and George Casey, respectively, have consistently argued in public against further expanding the American footprint in the theater.
General Kellogg suggested that some of the comments from the Bush administration recently, in his opinion, looked like an attempt to sort of shift responsibility onto the shoulders of the generals.
Like the apocryphal Roman slave tasked to walk behind Rome's conquering generals and whisper, "All glory is fleeting, " Mariano Rivera takes it upon himself to remind the Yankees' developing young pitchers that they are always a hairsbreadth away from failure.
Speak to senior generals and diplomats and they have a view of what the country looks like after they have gone.
To make their case, the generals and admirals needed to do some creative salesmanship while avoiding some basic questions, like Will they work?
Since then, 50 attorneys generals have launched a an in-depth investigation into the way BofA and other lenders like Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase handled foreclosures.
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Sitting in what surely feels like a retirement come too early, Petraeus must wonder where he will rank in the pantheon of American generals.
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