Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...searching for ways to bash or praise seniors who choose to drop their resumes to the Office of Career Services (OCS) in search of a job in the business world does not go to the heart of the matter: It does not serve to explain why many people whom we respect and whom we know to be good people choose to become bankers and consultants. As someone for whom corporate America holds no allure, the fact that so many of the people I entered Harvard with are now going through recruiting is sort of baffling to me, but I find...
...Gates, it was Jobs, nonetheless, who made the key decisions that shaped the company and the PC industry in its formative years: to name his computer after a fruit; to package it in a molded plastic case; to hire world-class p.r. and marketing firms; and, most incredibly, to drop everything to build the industry-incompatible but user-friendly Macintosh after visiting Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center and seeing its icons, its windows, its mouse. Jobs made us choose sides...
Having learned not to say "ain't" or use double negatives or drop his Gs, a more polished L.B. found a new role model in Herbert Hoover. He worked so effectively for Hoover that he dared hope he might be the new President's choice as ambassador to England. An ambassadorship to Turkey was dangled, but Mayer chose to oversee his studio's triumphant transition from silence to sound: "Garbo Talks!" The Mayers did claim the privilege of being Hoover's first guests at the White House. From then on L.B. felt free to phone the President, and frequently...
...Sports chief Roone Arledge) Monday Night Football, which is the second longest running prime-time show on American television, after 60 Minutes. He exhibited a taste for kitsch and spectacle unrivaled in professional sports. He loved floats and glitter and marching bands. His idea of beauty was a balloon drop. (He did not, however, like the name Super Bowl. It was coined by the son of Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, whose imagination had been captured by the newly invented Super Ball.) It is now commonplace for a regular-season football game to attract ratings that surpass the playoff...
...variety of elective offices, ranging from lieutenant governor of New York to U.S. Senator as a member of, variously, the Republican, Democratic and Independent parties. Recently, he interposed himself into the Clinton sex scandal, when, uninvited, he offered to pay Paula Jones $1 million if she would drop her sexual-harassment suit against the President. A few years ago, a headline in the New York Post asked WHO IS THIS NUT? At the time, Hirschfeld owned the newspaper. Asked if he was crazy, he replied, with great good grace, "I am. Any person that achieves things and accomplishes things...