Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your cover should have read "The Courage of Newt." People may bad-mouth him all they want, but it takes uncommon courage and good sense to step down at this time. No more will Newt be the Democrat's whipping boy and everybody's scapegoat. But you watch: he'll be back in a new role; his integrity will be proved in the end! WANDA RAE BUTLER Mesquite...
...born a few days after Hitler marched into Poland, and as a boy I absorbed, by moral osmosis and overheard conversation, some of the lessons of the time--for example, lessons taught by Auschwitz and Josef Mengele...
Walter has a staff to do stuff he doesn't want to do: folks like I.M. Better, who takes his medicine, and Admiral B., who takes his bath. Every boy should have underlings...
...typical Jobs: quick, dismissive and at least half wrong. Jobs ended up licensing Microsoft's BASIC after all (on terms that turned out to be, as usual, very advantageous to Apple). And though he went on to become, for a time, the golden boy of Silicon Valley--in 1981 Apple's $334 million in sales dwarfed Microsoft's puny $15 million--it was Bill Gates who became the emperor of all computerdom...
...least bit squeamish about tough tactics. He colluded with railroads to gain preferential freight rates, secretly owned rivals, bribed state legislators and engaged in industrial espionage. From Cleveland, he rolled up one refining center after another until his control was absolute. He was still in his 30s, the boy wonder of American business. At the same time, he was a devout Baptist with a ministerial air, who professed to have no less a business expert than the Lord on his side...