Word: aloofness
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...major complaint was that Restic was difficult to comunicate with and remained unacceptably aloof. "You never see him in the locker room, win or lose," James P. Mullen '82 said at the time. Some players felt they were competing with the multiflex itself. "If we win, it's the multiflex's gain. If we lose it's because we don't have the personnel," one player said...
Borman has asked Eastern employees for wage concessions in the past, and they have delivered, giving up possibly more than employees of any other airline. It is unclear whether workers will come around again. Borman, say insiders, has become increasingly aloof and tightlipped, and resentment toward him is growing throughout East- ern. Said Al Hanson, a union spokesman at the airline: "This is a manufactured situation. It is time for Borman to exit; he's become totally noncredible." Borman has given his employees until Oct. 12 to agree to lower wages...
...jagged series of breathtaking strokes. One week is hardly long enough to sense and report a pattern that may take decades to emerge. Sixty years ago, for example, William Faulkner was loitering about his home town of Oxford, Miss., being called "Count-no-count" by derisive neighbors for his aloof artiness. During the late '20s and early '30s he produced a series of novels that amounted, one by one, to an epic saga of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a sum greater than the number of its parts. Though TIME published a cover story on Faulkner in 1939, several...
...January, Robert Jaunich II was brought in from Consolidated Foods, where he was president, to become chief executive officer. He found it difficult to adjust to the industry's fast pace and gained a reputation in the company for being aloof and ineffective. The firm's lack of basic financial controls or enough experienced managers finally proved fatal...
...Jemison also had ties with Jackson. In 1953, when Jackson was elected president, Jemison had been chosen general secretary, and year after year the two were re-elected in tandem. Privately, Jemison was not happy with the group's aloof stance toward the civil rights movement. "It was very difficult," he admitted last week. "I sat through it out of loyalty to the leadership. All I could do then was sit and cry within." Jemison, whose dying father had told him that "God would pass the leadership of the convention to me," bided his time, waiting for Jackson...