Word: copely
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Amid all this, the Carter Administration has appeared paralyzed and unable to cope with problems that it does not fully understand. Quips Alfred Kahn, the hapless presidential anti-inflation adviser: "Anybody who isn't schizophrenic these days just isn't thinking clearly...
...does not enjoy publicity, like a good solider he has learned to cope with it. Before he embarks on any public event, Bok steels himself for the evening, and a noticeable change comes over him. He is disciplined and systematic and has learned to look interested no matter what the topic of discussion. Bok's almost Puritan sense of propriety, friends say, has molded his public behavior until it fits his image of how the president of Harvard should act. "The appearance," Dean Rosovsky says, "very much belies the person...
...gave Management Consultant Robert Bramson [March 17] an opportunity to tell the bosses how to cope with what he calls "troublemakers in the office," which is like telling the Soviets how to cope with the Afghan rebels. I hope he will now tell the millions of good and responsible, but exploited and abused employees how to cope with greedy and mean bosses...
...fellow workers will really appreciate your article on how to cope with troublemakers in the office. After reading it carefully and honestly, I realized that I am a hostile-aggressive, indecisive, know-it-all complainer...
...Aunt Erma's Cope Book, Bombeck...