Word: give
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of finding it, he loses it, and so much else: his unexamined ideals, his blinkered innocence, his respect for those who still believe the lies that nurtured him. Ron would give up all those values just to be whole again. The film spends only 17 minutes in Viet Nam, but the war overshadows all that precedes and follows...
They shot for 65 exhausting, twelve-hour days (on a slim budget of $17.8 million), and Cruise would not trade a day of it. "At the beginning I thought, 'Oh, man, I just don't want to blow this. Every day I am going to give it everything I have. In the Philippines, where we shot the Viet Nam stuff, I was thinking, 'I don't know how it's going to be, but all I know is, I have got absolutely nothing left.' I was burned out. Burned out. But when I think back to the happiest moments...
Scooped up by the Chiefs as a second-round draft choice in 1987, Okoye averaged only 54 yds. in rushing in his first two pro seasons. But when coach Marty Schottenheimer decided to emphasize the Chiefs' ground offense this year, Okoye found his groove. The formula is simple: they give him the ball, he runs with it. "I have to work harder than anyone else," says Okoye in his Nigerian lilt, "because everybody knows more about football than me and I have to catch up." Marvels Schottenheimer: "I don't think I've ever seen anyone with the combination...
While postal officials are not likely to show up on The Oprah Winfrey Show anytime soon as examples of modern touchy-feely management, they are experimenting with new programs, including "Employee Involvement" and "Quality of Worklife Processes," to give workers more autonomy on the shop floor. In San Diego about 20 supervisors are taking Dale Carnegie courses; two are being individually treated by psychologists to reduce their "irritability factor...
...come see me," snapped Gorbachev. "I'll give you three files with thousands of such cables...