Word: ego
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bendix employees and outside analysts have been voicing their complaints. Says a longtime Bendix observer: "I don't believe that a fellow with his ego, his selfishness, his offensiveness, his personal ambition can last for a long time as head of one of our major corporations...
...three-month training. Among his charges: recruits were poorly trained in citizens' legal rights; two violence-prone youths were graduated simply to bolster the size of the chapter; the group was racked by a power struggle between co-leaders dubbed by the rank and file "Mr. Ego" and "Mr. Mouth...
...been found to the bite of the state's most annoying insect, the California Cute-Fly, which gathers in swarms at art schools and among the hills of Marin County. Quaintness, a whiff of sinsemilla, weaknesses of the bone structure, a pervasive reek of the petted ego-such are the main signs of this gnat's attack, coupled with the hermetic babblings which, on that coastal paradise of the half-blown mind, stand in for Imagination...
...many felt that the publicity could be dangerously counterproductive. "There are always rumors of that sort of thing," said former President Jimmy Carter. "I always felt it was better not to broadcast these things." "It could just encourage Gaddafi," argued Democratic Senator John Glenn of Ohio. "You feed his ego and make him want to do something that shows he's macho." Others feared that the publicity would build up Gaddafi's importance and win him friends among Arab nations already unfriendly to the U.S. Said Roger Fisher, professor of law at Harvard University: "We built up Castro...
Carson says that it is difficult to play to two audiences. "I never expected to be a tremendous hit in England," he says, "but I hope the people will give it a chance to settle in." But three regional television companies have given the ego a beating by dropping the show. Said a spokesman for Central Scotland television: "Our audience didn't like it, and more important, didn't understand it. Seventy percent of the jokes mean Sweet Fanny Adams to us up here...