Word: grins
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...director of finance at Flextronics. "Now we're in the driver's seat because they are rushing to off-load them." Marks, a salesman to the bone, tells potential customers: "You can be a market-leading company and not make a single thing." Why not, he adds with a grin, let Flextronics make your products for you? "The venture-capital guys won't even give you money for a factory these days," boasts Marks. "They'll tell you to go to Flextronics...
...then there is his gentle, hopeful reminder: “All things must pass.” The unimaginable thought of George and his toothy grin shuffling off this mortal coil seems a rich irony in light of these soothing words, as we realize that there are statutes of limitations on everything—whether we can tell what they are ahead of time or not. And so we get a few minutes to nurse a warm pint of stout, a couple of days to view graffiti before it’s painted over, six days to take a vacation...
...farewell party for the Canadian-born actor at the close of shooting. As the crew disperses into the night, a young woman sidles up to Feng for an autograph. Feng looks surprised, scratches his head and points to Sutherland. "No, he's the famous one," he says, a lopsided grin taking over his face. "Big Hollywood man. Me, I'm just an ordinary guy." That's the creed that makes Feng China's top director: keeping it funny, real, ordinary...
...here's the plan. As soon as you hear the word "Kyoto," stand up, and with a big goofy grin on your face, start banging on the table with your cowboy boot. That'll get their attention...
...Pickard flashed the lopsided grin that proves, in addition to his beanpole build, that he was separated at birth from Brit comic Hugh Laurie (best known on this side of the Atlantic as the sweetly goofy Bertie Wooster of Masterpiece Theater's "Jeeves and Wooster" series.) "The scars are hidden by the suits," he laughed. "Our heads are hanging by threads...