Assistant Vice President for Public Affairs said “the term crisis management is something of an oxymoron, implying as it does that events bringing sudden shock, panic, and chaos can submit to project “management.”Of course, it is imperative for us to have crisis plans in place and for ...
For this, though, we need political leadership, but, as I already realized many years ago, political leadership has become an oxymoron, since politicians have only one preoccupation, their own reelection. And it happened that the Gulf of Mexico’s oil spill has followed Finagle’s Law to the...
And it apparently, at least to my observation, it’s an oxymoron. After a daily study of History for sixty years the only lesson I’ve learned is that humanity never learns the lessons of History. In my classes I tell my students that History is nothing more than the stories of people...
This area was regarded as a paradigmatic example of the progressive change in the spatial regime of population distribution [51]. An improved knowledge of population dynamics allows for the investigation of selected socioeconomic characteristics of districts continuously attracting (or expelling) population...
Narrative is sort of a fancy word for story. But that's not all it is. It's more interesting than just story, it's more powerful than story. On some level the words "narrative journalism" are an oxymoron. It's a kind of unholy alliance, if you have a kind of pure view of ...
It is an oxymoron to be in the moment and always moving from the moment, but such is life and it is a truth that cannot be denied if we are in search of peace. The world is ever moving. Ever changing. Living in the moment means doing or feeling or seeing or recognizing what’s ...