Word: flaps
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...front flap of Joseph L. Badaracco’s best-selling book Leading Quietly, the Shad Professor of Business Ethics at Harvard Business School (HBS) lauds people who “choose responsible, behind-the-scenes action over public heroism to resolve tough leadership challenges...
Meanwhile, the brass at AMR quietly landed pension guarantees worth $41 million--benefits that, unlike those of the workers, will be protected even if AMR goes bankrupt. Succumbing to public pressure, AMR backed off on another issue: its proposed "retention" bonuses for top executives. A flap over that cost CEO Donald Carty his job. But the executive pensions remain in place. Investing legend Warren Buffett, who has been campaigning against executive compensation that is out of line with returns to workers and shareholders, said in a recent speech that "what really gets to the public is when CEOs get rich...
...game time, it had warmed up three degrees, to 13 below. In the stands, 50,000 Packer backers stuffed themselves into their flap-eared hats and sleeping bags. For the Dallas Cowboys, hell had frozen over. For fans gathered around their warm televisions, it was a frosty football treasure. Trailing 17-14 with seconds to go, the Pack pulled out the NFL title on QB Bart Starr's sneak...
Last week Van Allen was reviewing ozone measurements obtained a half-century ago, when Aerobee rockets carrying detectors he designed were shot high into the atmosphere. He's comparing the data with current ozone readings to determine what changes, if any, have occurred. "With the flap about the hole in the ozone layer," he says, "it's a very lively subject right...
...club last year, but the guiltless hours spent watching TV or picking up a book only in order to drop it on a cockroach are over. Oprah is reviving the club, but this time she will focus on the classics. This should help avoid any unpleasantness, such as the flap that arose with author Jonathan Franzen. After Oprah anointed his book The Corrections, Franzen expressed ambivalence about having his novel embraced by Oprah fans. By choosing works by Shakespeare, Faulkner, Hemingway and other dead people, she will probably circumvent such ingratitude...