Word: herded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a chance to remove the protesters in an orderly fashion, the alumni would have had to back off and let the police handle it. As it was, and as may be inevitable in a situation with so many corporate chief executives, the distinguished alumni behaved like a herd of rampaging bulls...
...running feud with the press herd had already been revived the week before, when he and Actress Tatum O'Neal were married in Oyster Bay, N.Y. McEnroe spit at a photographer a couple of days before the wedding and slipped into the church through dark curtains draped over the carport entrance. Give him points for trying, however. After the ceremony McEnroe and his wife waved, smiled and kissed for the crowds outside the church...
...BRIGHT WATERS OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC. BURSTING INTO NOISY LIFE, THEY SLICE THROUGH THE CRESTING WAVE TOPS AT 35 KNOTS. DEAD AHEAD OF THEM, A POD OF PORPOISES, OR DOLPHINS, BOLT WITH FRIGHT, BUT THE FLEEING MARINE MAMMALS ARE SOON OVERTAKEN. LIKE COW PONIES ROUNDING UP CATTLE, THE SPEEDBOATS HERD HUNDREDS...
That encounter eventually led to the formation of Golder, Thoma & Cressey, a Chicago venture capital firm that started business in 1980 with $60 million. Now the partnership manages two funds worth $160 million. Cressey rides herd on nine companies, primarily in the health-care industry, including his most promising current venture, Continental Medical Systems, a nursing-home operator. "In the office, we spend all our time juggling phone calls from CEOs, dealing with problems from hiring to firing," he says. "You've got to change your mind-set quickly from one company to another." Cressey spends his free time...
...computer common room in Bell Laboratories' six-story brick quarters in Murray Hill, N.J., is strewn with a herd of toy sheep, an assortment of plastic ducks and a glass beaker that contains a Madagascar hissing cockroach. Walking along one of the facility's narrow, institutional-green corridors, Mathematician Ronald Graham effortlessly juggles six spinning white balls. Some days the balls are black. Not long ago, in a nearby office, a shimmying belly dancer tried to perk up a brooding scientist who was convinced that he had lost his zest for research. Since its founding on New Year...