Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never experienced that." Before the adoption became official, Helms gave the boy some baseball equipment. "If you won't keep me," asked Charles, "can I keep the glove and ball?" Charles, whose balance has improved after four operations, is a senior in forestry at North Carolina State. "Mom and Dad," he says, "always stressed that whatever your talents, just do the best and you'll make it." Says his father: "He is a blessing...
...Dad pulls in his coattails
...Dad, William Wharton...
...beefy and profane Presser characteristically dismisses the allegations with an expletive. He conceded to TIME that he, his father and Fitzsimmons met with the IRS agents once, in early 1972, but added: "I never talked with them again. I'm certain my dad didn't talk to them either, because he never told me that he did. I can't say what Fitz did." Presser added: "So, I'm a fink? Look, I can't be responsible for what's in Government reports." Presser said this in a limousine carrying him to the Executive...
...this a case of poor executive selection? Faulty market research? Zaleznik's diagnosis went beyond both: the client, he concluded, had a father fixation. He had expanded the company in order to prove that he was a bigger and better executive than Dad, and then, when business faltered, he appointed a successor in an unconscious desire to find a scapegoat...