BAD HABITS

Bad Habits

Bad Habits

Face-saving

A face-saving negotiation is for both the TOC personnel and the subject to agree that he or she will be taken into custody at the back of his or her home to avoid the humiliation of his or her arrest being filmed by the local media.

Some critics argued that Powell exceeded the bounds of civil-military propriety in his efforts to publicly argue against intervention in Bosnia and, more directly, in resisting Clinton's moves to implement the removal of the gay ban in the first days of his administration. On this latter subject Powell was especially adamant, convinced that ...