Word: doering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Chuck Noland, the FedEx manager stranded on a Pacific island after a plane crash, has no one to talk to, to bray at, as he did to his harried underlings at work--no one to shore up his resolve or share his desperation. Well, all right. Chuck is a doer. So he will fashion tools, clothing, shelter; find food, draw cave paintings, make fire. He will replicate the ascent of man, all by his lonesome. He'll be Robinson Crusoe without Friday, Gilligan without the crew, Survivor without all those annoying other survivors...
...Chuck Noland, the FedEx manager stranded on a Pacific island after a plane crash, has no one to talk to, to bray at, as he did to his harried underlings at work - no one to shore up his resolve or share his desperation. Well, all right. Chuck is a doer. So he will fashion tools, clothing, shelter; find food, draw cave paintings, make fire. He will replicate the ascent of man, all by his lonesome. He'll be Robinson Crusoe without Friday, Gilligan without the crew, Survivor without all those annoying other survivors. Hanks has often played a decent...
...voucher questions (she's against them, but she and the President sent Chelsea to an exclusive private school); Lazio didn't have a cogent explanation for his vote against the Patient's Bill of Rights. Occasionally, during a defensive response, the Representative appeared petulant: "I am a doer!" he cried, in defense of his record. "I did get the job done...
...them and liked them, they would be elected. If someone of the committee didn't like them, they would not be elected unless there was a groundswell of support. If no one on the committee knew them, they would not be elected," he says. Flather, a self-proclaimed collegiate "doer," who knew a vast percent of his class, made it his mission to include men he knew would not have gotten in otherwise. It was during his time, for instance, that a significant number of Jews gained admission to the club. In another move to expand the membership base, when...
...would identify a goal, and realize that it would take time [to develop the backing and resources necessary to achieve that goal," she says. "He was not a talker, he was a doer, and he was a doer who realized he could not do anything overnight...