Word: fooled
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...executive involved in a current takeover: "The yardstick for compensation has just gotten twelve inches longer. The chief executive who's doing a first-class job running a major U.S. corporation for $890,000 a year is going to start thinking he's some kind of a fool...
...FOOL'S PROGRESS...
Hershiser, 23-8 during the season with eight shutouts, allowed seven hits, struck out five and walked just one batter in eight-and-one-third innings. He used a variety of pitches to fool the Mets, who had outscored the Dodgers 49-18 in winning 10 of 11 games during the season, including all six here...
...Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlie Sheen and Lou Diamond Phillips (an actor who curiously combines sweetness and menace and may have the brightest future of them all) could reinvigorate the moribund western form are quickly blotted out by the cloud of ineptitude raised by Young Guns. Profit, yes. The fool thing took in more than $19 million in its first two weeks of release...
Father Joe is short, overweight, too fond of food and especially of drink; he is no crowd pleaser but no fool either, a traditionalist, competent and at the same time numbed by routine. Like many a middle-age professional man, he has problems with the home office (obstructive tactics by the chancery, presided over by Monsignor "Catfish" Toohey, a despised rival of Joe's since childhood), with his clients (an overbearing parishioner who wants to buy his child's way into the church school) and with his territory (blatant boosterism for the suburb's tacky shopping mall, dominated...