Word: gideons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most administrators agree that the current crop of leading conductors is too small and the temptations of jet travel too great for the widespread return of the old-fashioned music director like George Szell in Cleveland or Eugene Ormandy in Philadelphia. Says Gideon Toeplitz, executive director of the Houston Symphony: "If Ormandy were young today, nobody would expect him to stay 40 years with his orchestra." The globetrotting, if-this-is-Tuesday types are not about to be tied down. "It's easy to stand up and beat time and have fancy choreography and a good tailor, but that...
...explore the world and experience" attitude. "A lot of people on the staff fit the counter-culture image of the 60's--they've taken time off from this place and are willing to sacrifice and live cheaply just to be in a different country," says researcher and editor Gideon A. Schor...
...Dony Gideon Larkspur, Colo...
...major corporations and state agencies are literally setting up their own phone companies. By building microwave dish antennas and aiming them at communications satellites, they can legally bypass public phone systems. That significantly cuts into the revenue of AT&T and all other phone companies. Says Gideon Gartner, a telecommunications researcher: "The danger to AT&T of bypass cannot be overestimated...
...what to drink (no alcohol, even when off the job), and were urged in signs posted everywhere to THINK. Aspiring executives usually started out in sales and marketing and were transferred so frequently that they took to joking that IBM stood for "I've Been Moved." Observes Gideon Gartner, chairman of the Gartner Group, a computer-research firm: "If you understand the Marines, you can understand...