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"Figurehead" assumes front and center location, so what should I call a figure atop the cabin roof? helmed by a sailor who made it seem so simple and maneuverable that I left the Show wanting to learn this too.
tugster: a waterblog 2009
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Figurehead from Golden Voyage of Sinbad on sale at ...
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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* Previously: Figurehead from Golden Voyage of Sinbad on sale at eBay.
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Donald Hambrick and Sydney Finkelstein, who coined the Titular Figurehead/Unconstrained Manager dichotomy in a 1987 article in Research in Organizational Behavior, even suggest that the world would be better off if leadership effects were always negligible.
Do CEOs Matter? 2009
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Donald Hambrick and Sydney Finkelstein, who coined the Titular Figurehead/Unconstrained Manager dichotomy in a 1987 article in Research in Organizational Behavior, even suggest that the world would be better off if leadership effects were always negligible.
Do CEOs Matter? 2009
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By HAVOCK, October 28, 2009 @ 9:53 am have mad, slightly of ais Scintists becom the norm as Figurehead characters in mini series now or what…
Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone besides Orin and me watching Stargate Universe? 2009
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"Figurehead party members" referred to above would appear to be party members kept by local factions affiliated with the DPP for the purpose of vote buying sometimes known as nominal party members -- 人頭黨員.
Archive 2008-03-01 Michael Turton 2008
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Unless President-as-Mere-Figurehead is the desirable norm, how well the man thinks, whether he is foggy or quick to temper, as affected by age, disease, or anything else — that matters.
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Reagan was nothing more than the affable Figurehead, or Faceman, for the further installation of the Bush Crime Family, all the ginning-up of the Military Industrial Complex and most of what we have suffered at their hands the past 8 years and more.
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Figurehead -- says the ANC, set to take power after an apartheid era that gave traditional rulers a special role in their regions.
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