From James B. Stewart’s “The Real Heroes Are Dead” (The New Yorker [11 February 2002]: 58):
… he was simply following the “Eight P’s,” a mnemonic that had been drummed into them in the military: “Proper prior planning and preparation prevents piss-poor performance.”
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Posted on October 1st, 2006 by Scott Granneman
Categories: Commonplace Book, Language & Literature, Writing Ideas
Tags: analysis, language, military, security



