Word: dicey
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...there, it's always something different." Some opt out of the rat race. "What seems like apathetic hedonism actually represents a fairly informed bet," American Demographics columnist Marc Spiegler wrote recently. "Why put up with the cubicled world's woes when its promised delayed gratification is an ever more dicey proposition?" The slogan on Eddie Bauer's shopping bags puts it succinctly: "Never confuse having a career with having a life...
Apple Computer's latest plans to lay off 2,700 employees (25 percent of its payroll) are a dicey gamble. Having sliced its staff in half since 1995, th e struggling computermaker must now pray that it can keep the workers it needs to think its way out of the tiny corner of the market where it cowers, says San Francisco Bureau Chief Dave Jackson. While Apple CEO Gilbert Emilio insists that the company w ill return to profitability by year's end, that's not really the point in a business where rapid innovation is survival, and where fewer...
...only about a dozen stirred up a profit last year. Many are one-drug research outfits in a field where only 1 in 10 drugs gets approved. In many cases, three or four one-note companies are working on the same basic treatment, like wound healing. It's a dicey business...
...Wars has become such a cultural given that it almost seems as if the film had been channeled from the pop ether fully formed and perfect, like a melody entering Paul McCartney's head. With all the hoopla surrounding the current rerelease, it's easy to forget just how dicey a proposition Star Wars was in 1977 when it opened not on 2,104 screens around the country, as it did last week, but on only 35--which itself suggests an entirely different era of moviegoing. No one associated with the film expected it to be a hit, not even...
When my daughter asked what I did and when I did it as we proceeded to the dicey teenage years, I thought, O.K., honesty is the best policy. Well, what's the second-best policy? Omission, because kids are so much better off not knowing everything about you. Authority flows more easily when there is some mystery about who you were as a child as opposed to who you are as the older and wiser parent they now know...