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...easy to dismiss lacocca as just another supersalesman because he is so good at it. He exudes confidence and conviction: well-tailored clothes, big cigar, self-satisfied smile. But lacocca has proved he is a remarkable manager as well. He has a knack for getting the most out of people, for making them do more than they think they can. Says St. Louis Plant Manager John Burkart: "All of us at Chrysler believe in the man. I worship the guy." Vince Williams, a Portland, Ore., auto salesman, says he decided to open a Dodge dealership rather than a Pontiac outlet...
...could almost dismiss this passage as a sarcastic denunciation of the "Harvard Mystique." But the same adulation resurfaces again and again, even in the most peripheral descriptions of Cambridge weather or shops. Eager to recreate faithfully each joyous image of Harvard life, Levine crowds her sentences with painstaking and pained observations noting each character's clothing or the color of trays in the dining room. Thus the reader learns that Sarah and her boyfriend first make love "in Cambridge, in Mather Hall (sic), in the bottom bunk of a double-decker, his tie on the doorknob to warn away roommates...
Following an emergency meeting of the SUNY board of trustees, Wharton said that rather than dismiss faculty and reduce university staff "equal reductions could be achieved by closing both the University centers at Albany and Binghamton, or by shutting down SUNY's largest single campus, the University Center at Buffalo...
...unfortunate misquote attributed to myself was used to dismiss the leadership potential of two strong, caring women who have been very active in the Harvard-Radcliffe Community for the past two years...
...decision to dismiss Mr. Whitlam was exclusively my own, made upon my sole and full responsibility as Governor-General. No one else produced it. The CIA had no part...