To understand grim reality of this threat assessment, one need look no further than the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a clever and vigorous organization, deliberately chipping away at public institutions across the country.
I am very confident that, together with my co-plaintiff, Ernestine Grant (another black woman over the age of 60, and a 16-year Times employee), and our attorneys at Wigdor LLP, our efforts will prompt change – not just at the Times, but at other organizations tempted to give in to the simplistic stereotype of who belongs in a vigorous, contemporary organization.
As the board investigated the Columbia accident, it expected to find a vigorous safety organization, process and culture at NASA bearing little resemblance to what the Rogers Commission identified as the ineffective "silent safety" system in which budget cuts resulted in a lack of resources, personnel, independence and authority.
McGovern, reaping the benefit of his early start and vigorous organization, was close behind with 37 percent.
Large numbers of Kikuyu left the church, and Kenya's leading anticolonial political organization mounted a vigorous attack on the church's policies.
Nongovernmental organizations began a vigorous campaign to prevent the reregistration of glyphosate.
That larger tax was endorsed by two House committees--on science and small business--as part of a slew of proposed changes to the program, triggering a vigorous lobbying campaign by several scientific organizations.
An organization makes a decision; a vigorous debate follows; as a result, the decision is rethought.
It is unlikely that a VIGORous individual could fully thrive in an organization that did not foster vision, empowerment, and support.
A report issued on Friday by the United Nations AIDS agency, Unaids, noted that thanks to a vigorous effort by donor nations and international organizations, the global annual rate of new cases of H.I.V. dropped by 25 percent over the last decade.
