Word: herb
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...that employees who take business (but not necessarily themselves) seriously stand to be happier and more productive. Fun doesn't save people from layoffs. But it does save them from tedium and stress and can spark creativity. The fun workplace is a concept established by CEOs like Southwest Airlines' Herb Kelleher, for whom audiovisual aids were a lighted cigarette and the clinking ice cubes in his drink. Of course, Kelleher wasn't above handling customer baggage either, and Southwest made tons of money...
...DIED. HERB GARDNER, 68, Tony-winning playwright; after a long battle with lung disease; in New York City. His biggest success, A Thousand Clowns, in 1962, told the story of Murray Burns (played by Jason Robards Jr.), a nonconformist ex-writer for children's TV who fights to keep custody of his nephew. Gardner also wrote I'm Not Rappaport, a 1985 hit about a pair of endearingly cantankerous octogenarians...
Howard published over 300 scientific papers and 13 books in his lifetime, garnering honors from the American Herb Society, the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences in Denmark and the Garden Club of America...
...battle between Schwarzenegger and Davis could be called the Terminator vs. the Nauseator. Gentlemen, come out fighting! HERB STARK Massapequa...
...DIED. HERB BROOKS, 66, who coached the most famous U.S. ice-hockey victory, the Miracle on Ice, at the 1980 Lake Placid, N.Y., Winter Olympics; in an auto accident, near Forest Lake, Minn. A hockey obsessive known for his strategic imagination and nose-to-nose motivation, he adapted Team U.S.A.'s training and tactics to the wide-open European-style game and convinced his team of amateurs that they were destined to beat the hockey powerhouse that was then the Soviet national team. They did, 4-3, in a game that instantly became famous. They next beat Finland...