Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peddling insurance demanded the same fierce energy and concentration that Finley later brought to baseball ?endless hours on the job, limited delegation of authority and a careful accounting of even the most minor expenditures. Today the talk around Chicago is that the business of Charles O. Finley & Co. has been slipping. Finley insists that it is better than ever. His annual premium volume is $30 million a year. Finley himself is worth at least that amount...
What catalyzed these officers and politicized their anger was opposition to the seemingly endless, futile wars Lisbon had been waging since 1961 against liberation movements in Portugal's African territories. Many of them had spent almost all of their military careers in Africa. Not only did they bear the brunt of the fighting and physical hardship, but they were appalled by the wars' drain on their country-an estimated 300 killed annually and a continuing expenditure equivalent to 40% of Portugal's national budget. "The officers of the M.F.A. came to realize that they were sitting...
John Brennan's career at Ford Motor Co. seemed to be a classic American success story. In 31 years with the automaker, Brennan, now 56, rose from unskilled laborer through a variety of sales and administrative posts to chairman of Ford of Switzerland. His jobs involved attendance at endless rounds of lunches and social affairs, most of them bibulous. Consuming more and more liquor on the way up, Brennan became an alcoholic, subject to recurrent blackouts. Finally, five years ago, he took early retirement from Ford. Now he is suing the company for $1.3 million, contending that...
They are no overnight sensation, however. The grueling roadhouse gigs, dusty motel rooms and endless turnpike tours that attend the birth of almost every pop-music career merge in the show-business lexicon under the heading "dues paying." Hardly anyone escapes, least of all black rhythm and blues performers. This Georgia-born quartet spent nearly two decades in obscurity before finally scuffling into the big time...
...catalogue of forms is endless until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins...