Word: hating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply a funny sci-fi writer but a bomb-heaving satirist. Consider the spaceship that lands in central London, demolishing Harrods and disgorging a robot that demands, "Take me to your Lizard." On its world, Ford Prefect explains, "the people are people. The lizards are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." The system, he says, is called democracy. But why do the people vote for the lizards? "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, the wrong lizard might...
...many, he is a real-life J.R. Ewing, the ruthless but fascinating wheeler- dealer whom viewers of Dallas love to hate--and sometimes secretly admire. To , his victims, mostly entrenched corporate executives, he is a dangerous upstart, a sneaky poker player, a veritable rattlesnake in the woodpile. To his fans, though, he is a modern David, a champion of the little guy who takes on the Goliaths of Big Oil and more often than not gives them a costly whupping. Whichever image he evokes, T. (for Thomas) Boone Pickens, 56, has swept up like a twister out of Amarillo, Texas...
...younger Pickens was unhappy at Phillips from the start. He overflowed with ideas that his bosses refused to heed. After four years of watching his frustration, his wife half-jokingly asked one day, "If you hate it so much, why don't you just quit?" Returning to his office, Pickens gave notice, packed up and drove away. "It was the best advice Lynn ever gave me," he says of the episode, "though she was shocked when I told her I had taken it." Using the $1,300 he received in severance pay from Phillips' profit- $ sharing plan, Pickens bought...
...hope to broaden the profile of the audiences that attend Loeb events," he continued, "I really hate the way the ART [American Repertory Theatre] patrons look at the Ex and don't know what it is, what's inside." He added that the HRDC hopes that, if a specific audience for dance or film events is drawn to the Ex, they will return for other projects...
Bank of America's stumble occurred just as the institution was starting to recover from four years of slumping profits. Said President Samuel Armacost: "We all hate surprises, but one of this magnitude drives you nuts. It's going to be seen, correctly, as a dumb thing to have occurred...