Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bankers often do not fit the button-down mold traditionally associated with high finance. Says Donald Waite, a director of the management consulting firm of McKinsey & Co.: "Bankers are no longer bankers. They are a whole lot of different things, and above all they are managers who can handle a group of disparate enterprises." At Citicorp, for example, Jesse Fink, 27, who studied forestry before receiving his M.B.A., heads the company's direct-mail program. Says he: "This organization is not very age conscious. You can get a lot of responsibility quickly." Says Vice President Jennie Schreder...
Because he acknowledges the possibility of an Armageddon, President Reagan has been accused of being more willing to push the nuclear-war button [RELIGION, Nov. 5]. Believing in the inevitability of Armageddon does not automatically make one trigger-happy and dangerous. I accept the inevitability of death, yet I am not a careless driver. It does not follow that the belief hi a literal Armageddon has to be linked with a reckless willingness to enter a nuclear...
Answering machines can be very funny. They have their protocols and social comedies. Does one play one's messages when one has just come home with a guest? What intimacies and embarrassments will come flying out of the machine before one leaps for the stop button? "Gee, I wonder who that could have been...
Captain Adam Button, who scored four goals in the game, summed up the season finale well. "They were up for the Yale weekend and to have fun, and they had fun," he said...
...case of a nuclear attack, the President must decide to retaliate minutes after initial warnings of a Soviet strike are received. When practice data was interpreted as real by the North American Air Defense computers in 1980, for example fewer than five minutes separated the finger from the button. Airline navigation is a similarly dramatic example; bad data in a flight plan program is the suspected cause of a 1979 Air New Zealand crash that killed 257 passengers, the pilots, flying in poor weather were told by a navigation computer that they were over water when in fact they were...