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...night at dinner, in a virtually empty Dunster, I was visited by a vision of loveliness--"Sandra." I guess she had no one to sit with, needed company and I looked harmless. I've had a crush on her for months, and I've been trying to get her to talk to me for what seems like an eternity. And now she was having dinner with me! I was so excited. But for some reason the dinner didn't go that well and she hasn't spoken to me since. Now I realize...
Thoughts upon meeting Billy Joel last October: I had the terrible fear that I would somehow crush his hand and that he would never pay the piano again, not that I've ever crushed anyone's hands before...
This person had been the most visible officer of a landlord corporation that spent $180,000 trying to crush the rent control rights of its tenants. The corporations attack on its tenants were so unpopular that the corporations stopped electing directors for years because the people who controlled the corporation feared that new directors, once elected, would stop its attacks on its tenants...
...here on, the memories cut too close to be laughed at with such insouciance. Take the weird belief of the 1980s in mergers for their own sake, irrespective of what was being merged-and even if the merger could be accomplished only by borrowing so many billions as to crush the merged company under a mountain of debt. We are still living with the consequences. The need to undo some mergers helped launch the downsizing mania that has spawned a crazy credo: companies exist not for the purpose of producing goods and services, nor even maximizing profits, but in order...
Progress has been made in designing earthquake-resistant--but not earthquake-proof--buildings. U.S. building codes are written to save lives, not prevent all damage. Modern structures are designed to sway and maybe even crack in a quake, but not to break apart and crush their inhabitants under falling debris. Says Bill Iwan, director of the earthquake engineering research laboratory at Caltech: ``With buildings, if you walk out after a quake, the designers did their...