Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consider, in the last weeks of his life Hudson became perhaps the most famous homosexual in the world, a man whose fatal illness belatedly focused public attention on the disease that killed him. If he had succumbed to a heart attack, his death would probably have occasioned only a brief notice; because he was the most celebrated known victim of AIDS, it became a significant event...
...movies in recent memory have been as embarrassingly bad as this illstarred supernatural comedy. Although it would take days of labor and volumes of paper to fully enumerate the faults of the film, here is a brief sketch...
...office at about 6 a.m., the foreign-exchange specialist scans a Reuters video monitor through bleary eyes, checking the latest U.S. dollar prices from Bonn to Bangkok. After conferring by phone with colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Springborn heads down two flights of stairs to brief his boss, Treasury Secretary James Baker, who normally arrives before 7:30. In consultation with Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and senior Treasury officials, Baker decides whether to sell dollars to lower the value of the U.S. currency around the world, which would help beleaguered U.S. exporters and slow...
Business correspondence should be simple and brief, Baldrige declares. She proudly reports that soon after her brother, Malcolm Baldrige, became Secretary of Commerce in 1981, he programmed the department's word processors to reject such business jargon as "to prioritize," "bottom line" and "impact" used as a verb. The smart business executive meticulously manages what may seem to be minor concerns. Writes Baldrige: "Details linked together create a strong, effective executive presence that propels an individual upward in his or her career...
Interests: Save at least one line for a list in series of avocational interests such as, "Reading, playing guitar, running, and choral singing." Even a brief list rounds out your presentation and may establish an initial bond of common interest with the reader...