Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some to swallow. Following the initial problems with the Apple III, the company president fired some 40 employees and was in turn dumped by Jobs and current Apple president A.C. ("Mike") Markkula. Steve Wozniak drifted into conspicuous retirement and last year staged a rock concert in the Southern California desert. Some oldtime employees have not shared in the corporate bounty. Says one: "I wasn't obnoxious enough to make myself a millionaire." Jobs drives the staff hard, expecting long hours, high productivity and indefinite patience with his scattershot ideas. "He should be running Walt Disney," says a onetime Apple manager...
...Botswana, Randy Ewert, 25, and his wife Roxie, 24, American Mennonites, camp under canvas for days at a time while crossing the forbidding Kalahari Desert, bringing modern farming methods to impoverished nomadic Bushmen...
...lonely bush hospital, Merriweather had to contend with ailments brought from the outside world, such as tuberculosis and syphilis, as well as malnutrition, leprosy, maulings by lions or a scalp fungus caused by a lack of washing. In the cruel Kalahari Desert, explains the doctor, "water, if you find it, is for drinking, not washing." As an ordained clergyman, Merriweather also performed funeral services for patients who died...
...movie is a procession of perfect moments. Its dialogue is an exquisite fusion of the hard-boiled and a shameless, high-cholesterol sentimentality. The lines inspire a laughing, capitulating kind of affection. One cherishes them: What waters? We're in the desert . . . I was misinformed . . . Was that cannonfire? Or was it my heart pounding? . . . Kiss me! Kiss me as though it were the last time! . . . Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By ... I saved my first drink to have with you. . . Round up the usual suspects . . . We'll always have Paris. It has inspired bits of business...
...stays for the next twelve hours or so before packing his briefcase with papers to pore over at home. For relaxation, he spends an occasional night out at the National Symphony and squeezes in a weekend trip now and then to his vacation home on Mount Desert Island in Maine. But some Reagan aides and G.O.P. Senators had hoped that he would live up to his knife-wielding reputation and, while rebuilding the nation's defense as Reagan wishes, still find savings in the Pentagon that would cut the budget deficit. Instead, Weinberger gave too much control...