Word: assets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into the Consolidated Rail Corp. (Conrail). In addition to his experience in capital ways, Lewis' value lies in his background as a corporate troubleshooter. Says Anthony Hoffman, a vice president of the New York City brokerage firm A.G. Becker: "His political reputation and skills will be an added asset when it comes to the hunt for new cable franchises, but what is really being relied on here is his business ability in what constitutes a turnaround situation...
...spends more time than any other modern President writing and editing his own remarks. A corollary to this stress on communication, notes Deaver, is that "you should never try to make him do something he doesn't believe in, because if you do that, we will fail. The greatest asset this Administration has is Ronald Reagan; if he can't communicate his positions, we are in real trouble. And if he doesn't believe in it, he can't communicate...
Jonathan A Epstein '83 calls the peer relationship he has built up with the section of Math At he teaches, "at once the biggest problem and the biggest asset it's hard to pretend that you're the one in charge...
Head women's cross country coach. Denis Cochran Fikes, agrees with McCarthy's assessment of her yet to come achievements. Most definitely she's going to go on to be better and better, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if she became a marathoner." He comments. "Her greatest asset is her endurance--she can maintain good speeds over very long periods of time...
...faults. The main galleries, with their rhetorically high ceilings and towering walls of bushhammered concrete ("soaring" is the requisite adjective here), completely dwarf the paintings, turning Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles into a little silvery postage stamp. Worse, no role is played by Canberra's one architectural asset, natural daylight. Without it, the paintings look embalmed. This accords with the programmatic opinions of one of the gallery's early advisers, the former American museum director James Johnson Sweeney, but it is a grave mistake...