Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hermann Goring, whom most of them tacitly accepted as their "Führer," managed to salvage his vastly deceptive joviality (he graciously gave his autograph to a U.S. Navy technician) and one of his fancy uniforms, a fawn-colored, brass-buttoned affair, stripped of medals and cut down to fit his slenderized body...
...shine off DeLorean's career at General Motors. Despite his genuine flair for engineering, says the author, DeLorean appropriated other people's achievements for his own. No one who knows will say whether DeLorean quit or was fired in 1973. He had clearly infuriated the GM brass with his high-profile Hollywood lifestyle and outside business interests. But when DeLorean left, he did not do badly. Levin reports that his parting golden handshake with GM included a valuable Cadillac franchise and a year's extension of his $200,000 salary...
...During the riots, all of the top brass at Harvard knew the phone number at City Hall. We were there for them...
...Southwest look a few seasons ago sparked interest in prairie skirts and cowboy shirts, is now touting a nautical line designed to make lifelong landlubbers look as if they belonged on a yacht. The centerpiece: a navy serge officer's jacket, complete with braided gold trim and shiny brass buttons...
...about twice the rate found in the private sector. This proposal ignores the risk to life and limb, especially during training and combat, that is at least twice as great in the military as in civilian life. The survey's suggestions deserve the same attention that business brass would give to military men who advised them on corporate pensions...