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  • initialism operations Program Evaluation and Review Technique, a method for diagramming and analyzing the flow of dependent tasks and other events in a project.

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    TechNet Blogs 2009

  • Once the formality of kindling Public awareness (not necessarily gaining Public concurrence or support) is accomplished through appropriately packaged propaganda and media hype, the Enforcement muscle of the State is flexed to defuse dissent (i.e. exercise control and maintain Public Order) and promote compliance with a pre-designated PERT/Gantt chart based route that conforms with State/Foreign policy (i.e., enforce the Law).

    Cryptic Connotation of the Term "Law Enforcement" 2009

  • PERT: It's the maybe the spinal cord because they were young children once and things happened to them, and people -- Freud had a concept called reenactment whereby we tend to go back and try to reenact things that sort of traumatized us a long time ago.

    CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2008 2008

  • PERT: The more people that you are in contact with, the longer you live.

    CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2008 2008

  • PERT: I think some of the things we are seeing with the children today is a sign that the culture is in the wrong paradigm and not appreciating the power of thought.

    CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2008 2008

  • PERT: How many people that you speak to everyday, how many people you know.

    CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2008 2008

  • PERT: That's what I spent 20 years on, mapping these endorphin receptors, et cetera.

    CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2008 2008

  • PERT: No, I think we have to go backwards to the way we once were.

    CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2008 2008

  • PERT: Well, it was pretty stunning some 30 odd years ago when we found out that the brain stimulates morphine.

    CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2008 2008

  • PERT: Well, I think we're addicted to pleasure and it's our natural state to be addicted to pleasure because that's how we're wired up.

    CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2008 2008

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