Examples of General Leonard Wood in the following topics:
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The Debate over Preparedness
- The Preparedness Movement was a frenzy of public concern over the lack of preparedness of the U.S. military, led by Roosevelt and Wood.
- General Leonard Wood, ex-president Theodore Roosevelt, and former secretaries of war Elihu Root and Henry Stimson were the driving forces behind the Preparedness Movement, along with many of the nation's most prominent bankers, industrialists, lawyers, and scions of prominent families.
- Roosevelt, Root, and Wood were prospective Republican presidential candidates.
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Last Efforts for Peace
- Former President Theodore Roosevelt, General Leonard Wood, and former Secretaries of War Elihu Root and Henry Stimson were among the driving forces behind the Preparedness Movement, along with many of the nation's most prominent bankers, industrialists, lawyers, and scions of prominent families.
- The Plattsburg Movement, which hosted approximately 40,000 men in 1915 and 1916, was aimed at social elites, ignoring talented working class youths and subsequently failing to generate support among the middle class leadership in small town America.
- The Democratic Party, especially Wilson, was also opposed to the Preparedness Movement, believing it to be a political threat because Roosevelt, Root and Wood were prospective Republican presidential candidates.
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Wood
- Wood can be used to create various useful and/or decorative objects.
- Wood is used in forms of sculpture, craft, and decoration including chip carving, wood burning, and marquetry, among others.
- Any wood can be carved, but each type of wood has different qualities and characteristics that must be taken into account.
- Once the general shape is made, the carver may use a variety of tools for creating details.
- If a completely smooth surface is required, general smoothing can be done with tools such as 'rasps,' which are flat-bladed tools with a surface of pointed teeth.
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Variability in linear combinations of random variables
- The expected net gain or loss of Leonard's stock portfolio was considered in Exercise 2.83.
- Figure 2.24 shows the monthly changes in a portfolio like Leonard's during the 36 months from 2009 to 2011.
- This equation can be used to compute the variance of Leonard's monthly return:
- This generally holds true: negatives in a linear combination will have no impact on the variability computed for a linear combination, but they do impact the expected value computations.
- The change in a portfolio like Leonard's for the 36 months from 2009 to 2011, where $6000 is in Google's stock and $2000 is in Exxon Mobil's.
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Equality and its Limits
- In the mid-20th century, historian Leonard Woods Labaree identified a set of eight characteristics of the Loyalists that made them essentially conservative.
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Linear combinations of random variables
- More generally, the expectation of a sum of random variables is always the sum of the expectation for each random variable.
- Leonard has invested $6000 in Google Inc. ( stock ticker: GOOG) and $2000 in Exxon Mobil Corp.
- Then we can write an equation for Leonard's gain as $6000 × X + $2000 × Y.
- Compute the expected change in Leonard's stock portfolio for next month.
- You should have found that Leonard expects a positive gain in Exercise 2.83.
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The illusion of control
- (Mlodinow, Leonard, ‘The Limits of Control', The International Herald Tribune) In an academic study of elderly nursing home residents, for example, a group of individuals was told that it could decide how their rooms were decorated and that each person had a choice over what type of plant he or she could have (the subjects were also told that they were responsible for caring for the plant).
- Although research shows that satisfying the human need for control can create a powerful sense of purpose and direction, the irony is that too much control can generate problems.
- (Langer, Ellen, and Roth, J., ‘Heads I Win, Tails It's a Chance: The Illusion of Control as a Function of the Sequence of Outcomes in a Purely Chance Task', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 34) Obviously, in all of these examples the subjects had no control over the outcomes of the acts described, yet as psychologist Leonard Mlodinow reports, on a deep, subconscious level they must have felt they had some control because they behaved as if they did.
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The RATER Model
- Parasuraman, and Leonard Berry, who introduced the framework in their 1990 book Delivering Quality Service.
- The model highlights five areas that customers generally consider important when they use a service, and focuses on differentiating between customer experience and expectation.
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Trends in Management
- Metafilter: Content generated via partnership is harvested and analyzed for relevance, providing feedback to the organization.
- It has subsequently been distilled for more general application.
- Leonard J.
- Isaac Ashkenazi, formerly Surgeon General of the Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command and now a professor of international disaster management and the Director of Urban Terrorism Preparedness at the NPLI; and Joseph M.
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The Importance of Wording
- Objective tone: "A basic knowledge of wood anatomy and structure is vital to anyone seriously working with wood.
- What causes color, taste, and odor, and how does it affect wood's intended use?
- You need to understand a tree's cells before you can know more about what wood is and how it acts.
- The more you know, the smarter you'll be able to use this neat stuff called wood."
- Adverbial clause: Suddenly, Jane Doe found herself among the most famous botanists of her generation.