Word: gil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ease, as author Annie Dillard once wrote, is the way of perfection, violinist Gil Shaham may be the classical music world's most polished performer. By the end of his performance with the Boston Symphny Orchestra Saturday night, he had convinced the rapt audience at Symphony Hall that Mendelssohn violin concertos simply grew out of his gleaming Stradivarius without effort, toil or even a few hours' practice...
...suspension of the New York talks, then, was inevitable as soon as Chang Sung Gil, Pyongyang's ambassador to Egypt, walked into the U.S. Embassy and demanded asylum. Just as inevitably, says Waller, the North Koreans will be back. "They've stalled these talks before." Eventually, he says, Pyongyang will decide that the four-party talks are in its interest ? and though it may sting the national pride, only foreign aid can quiet the rumbling of North Korea's stomach...
...GIL AMELIO February 1996-July...
...executive recruiter calls and asks you to be CEO of Apple Computer, you should politely but firmly say no. Why? Last week the company forced out its third boss since 1993, and with Apple's current problems, "chief executive" isn't a job description, it's a sentence. Gil Amelio, the self-described "transformation manager" from National Semiconductor, lasted only 17 months. He trimmed Apple's confusing product line, slashed costs and pushed new Powerbook and operating-system projects back on schedule. But he couldn't halt Apple's market share slide, from 8% to 4%. The company piled...
...Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said or Frantz Fanon, who present a strikingly nontraditional perspective on America. Resistance can also be cultivated by reading personal narratives such as the prison letters of George Jackson or the autobiography of Malcolm X, or by listening to musicians such as the Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy, or Rage Against the Machine...