Word: assed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...often referred to as the Real World. Its definitely not the processed, edited-for-melodrama hi-jinks of the MTV version, but something far more sinister. It is a place where kids somehow lose their souls on the way to being bonafide adults, those people who connive, deceive and ass-kiss, among other things, to claw their way to the top, wherever THAT...
Doonan is with Barney's still and couldn't kiss enough ass, but the "inordinate amount of complimentary text," he leads us to believe, is more a function of the "fabulousness" of Barney's on every scale than his need to stay on the payroll. In an aside, Doonan alerts us to the impending effusive text, and writes, "This disclaimer... is designed to forewarn critics and urbane sophisticates who are not used to people saying nice things." Before you can even say anything smartass, you snap your jaws shut in shame...
...ass kicked," said captain Paul Fisher. "We were trying to play with them and they just gave it to us. They were able to pick up their level of play down the stretch...
...father over issues like finance. He installed a "contention" system that encouraged IBM managers to challenge one another. Watson was paternal with rank-and-file employees, but he was murder on his lieutenants, in accordance with his dictum that "the higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his ass...
...great that it hastened the carrier's demise. He was so vilified that he once defended his reputation by saying that he did not eat children for breakfast. On the other hand, Robert Crandall, the recently retired chairman of moneymaking American Airlines, draws effusive praise for being a hard-ass. A chain-smoking, incessant curser, Crandall called weekend meetings so often that execs' wives drew straws to see who would ask him to let up. Like all mean bosses, he had nicknames--"Darth Vader" and "Fang" among them...