Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mossavar-Rahmani says there is no conflictbetween his research findings in favor ofindependent oil companies such as Apache and hisjob which he accepted six months ago. He says hedoes not deal with the domestic oil industry inhis new position and therefore that the researchhe produced is not tainted...
...flash: he can cope with everything but success. But if there is a moral here, it is lost in the film's desperate dash to ingratiate. As Cruise says at Cocktail's climax, "I tried to sell out to you, but I couldn't close the deal." He should know you can't sell star quality, but you can sell it out. Charm is the wrapper, not the package. And Cocktail is a bottle of rotgut in a Dom Perignon...
...moment of reflection and win the girl of his revised dreams. Sure, fine, why not? Love with the proper heiress propelled many an affable screwball plot in the '30s, when stars made a new movie every few months and one more airy, romantic comedy was no big deal...
...narrow sense, Furuya's suicide was simply the act of a deeply despondent individual no longer able to cope. But his death can also be seen as a painful parable about how seriously many Japanese managers view responsibility and how they deal with failure. While many Americans feel little company loyalty and switch fairly easily to another firm when confronted with a setback, the Japanese tend to regard a job as a lifelong proposition and judge themselves entirely in the light of how well they do it. For some Japanese, especially those in their late 40s or older, failure...
...voters would be ashamed to cast their ballot for someone running on a platform of competence. That's not what presidential elections are about--they're about what Bush once called "that vision thing." Vision as in "it's morning in America," as in the New Frontier, the New Deal, the Great Society...