Word: hanged
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...deal-making. "American Airlines Chief Executive Robert L. Crandall is an extremely tough boss," Greenwald notes. Crandall, a known hardliner, has been known to berate his pilots publicly in the past. "His relations with his unions have not been good," Greenwald said. "I think he's likely to hang tough...
...being good at your job! It's simple. First, be MIKE OVITZ. Next get hired by Disney and do such lame work that the Mouseketeers terminate your contract 14 months later. Then you'll rake in almost $40 million in severance pay and 3 million stock options. If you hang on to those until 2002, there's a good chance they'll be worth about $100 million. Otherwise, be good at your job, like Michael Eisner, and Disney will give you a 10-year contract at $750,000 per annum plus a bonus this year of about $8 million...
...arrangement with his wife that he and Winblad can keep one vacation tradition alive. Every spring, as they have for more than a decade, Gates spends a long weekend with Winblad at her beach cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, where they ride dune buggies, hang-glide and walk on the beach. "We can play putt-putt while discussing biotechnology," Gates says. Winblad puts it more grandly. "We share our thoughts about the world and ourselves," she says. "And we marvel about how, as two young overachievers, we began a great adventure on the fringes of a little...
...Wednesday night, but Yoshimoto remained. On Thursday she attempted to hand a packet of stomach tablets to the Red Cross workers who were acting as go-betweens, with a note addressed to her husband in Roman alphabet. Added to it was the single Japanese word, ganbatte. It means "hang in there...
...provocative public image one notch too far. "If you read the text, it was completely tongue in cheek," she says. "It was a joke. Unfortunately, my sense of humor is not something that a mainstream audience picks up. For me all it did was expose our society's hang-ups about our sexuality. Yes, I took a beating, and yes, a lot of the things that were said were hurtful and unfair. And yes it made my life really difficult for a while. But there are no mistakes. It was a great learning experience...