Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cared for their year-old son while Wallis spent long nights at the office writing the story, was unconvinced by Hite's book. "I don't believe the world is as bleak for women as she says," Wallis observes. Associate Editor Martha Smilgis agrees. "I am surprised at how fast some men are changing to meet the new demands of working women." That sentiment was echoed by New York Correspondent Wayne Svoboda, who found the male experts he interviewed virtually (and, cynics might say, predictably) unanimous in their objection to Hite's indictment of masculine behavior. "The book makes...
Heading home, the seminar students look retooled, retuned, relaxed. Their arms enfold three-ring binders full of freshly surfaced data. They are carrying copies of The Pinstripe Gourmet, or Think Smart, Move Fast, or even How to Make It Big as a Consultant. At the airport newsstand a magazine cover line catches the eye: MANAGEMENT SECRETS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Now there was a role model for the ages, a boss who could communicate in the "I win, you lose" mode and get away with it. A guy who conquered Iran, no less...
...launched motorboat attacks in the Persian Gulf conflict. In a now notorious episode, a U.S. company was about to ship 50 radios (price: $28,500 each) to a supposed Libyan fig farm. But the Pentagon blocked the sale after learning that the radios were equipped with 785,000 fast-switching channels for evading eavesdroppers and were "ruggedized" for possible use in jeeps or tanks...
...York City in 1968 to pursue a doctoral degree in history at Columbia University. Dissatisfied with the program (she says a professor falsely accused her of plagiarism) and hard pressed for money, she turned to a modeling career with the Wilhelmina agency. Life on the modeling circuit was fast and daring ("It was a time when women believed they should have sex freely like men did"). She accepted offers to pose nude for Oui and Playboy magazines because the money was good. Hite blames "society" and skin magazines for exploiting women. She says now that the experience was "extremely painful...
Michael Mathieu '90 agreed, "The QRR is only a test of how fast you can read the little books they hand...