This is truly astonishing, because it violates our fundamental capitalist tenet that greater risk offers the potential for greater returns.

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Mr. Tenet hosted our briefing because my boss, Donald Rumsfeld, personally suggested he do so.

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Our response to the Tenet resignation was, in a word, a relief.

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Since such reports were not universally accepted as authoritative by every component of our intelligence community, however, Tenet apologized for allowing reference to them to appear in the Presidents State of the Union address.

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At another local hospital, Memorial Medical Center, a small fleet of helicopters was brought in to evacuate patients and staff after hospital officials were told "by officials on the ground to take the matter into our own hands, " said Trevor Fetter, president of Tenet HealthCare Corp.

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Choice preferably an exhaustive menu of it pretty much defines our status as consumers, and has long been an unquestioned tenet of the capitalist feast, but in fact carte blanche is no way to run a cultural life (or any kind of life, for that matter), and one thing that has nourished the theatrical experience, from the Athens of Aeschylus to the multiplex, is the element of compulsion.

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"It has been stressed to all our analysts that making hard calls is what we do, " Tenet said.

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The central tenet as we develop this plan is how we fulfill our mission as an encyclopedic institution.

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Mr. Tenet's account of all this gives the reader no idea of the substance of our critique, which was that the CIA's analysts were suppressing information.

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