Word: hug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consequence of the convergence of patriotism and economics in rural America. Their parents are proud but also worried that their child could be next. At home, TVs blare incessantly. Parents stay awake at night hoping for reassuring phone calls from the front. They get headaches. They cry, they hug, they pray...
Lines like, "Take a big breath. See how your chest fills up? That's the sky inside of you" join with suggestions to hug trees and to walk around lamps to understand what it is like for the earth to orbit the sun. Lehrman's explainations of natural phenomena are elementary even for a young child. This book is innane and authoritarian...
...seventh and ninth seeds, Josh Horwitz and Bobby Greenhill were off the courts almost before they got on. After tallying only two points in his first game against Greenhill, Big Red's Swapnil Shah got angry, but not even Greenhill's hug-the-wall rails deposed Shah after three...
...View, Calif., Sandra Kurtzig has adopted a style that would have shocked the button-down troops that Howington trained with. "I have a style of walking around and stroking people," says Kurtzig, 44. "Whenever possible, I try to compliment them in front of their peers and go up and hug them. A woman can show the warmth that a man often can't." While a woman's emotional range and empathy were once looked upon as distinct disadvantages in business, nowadays some executives see them as potential resources. "The best way to negotiate," Kurtzig insists, "is to understand what...
Naturally, not all women managers like to hug their employees, and not all male bosses are insensitive negotiators. "Gender isn't necessarily destiny in management style," affirms Christie Hefner, 37, who succeeded her father two years ago as chairman and chief executive of Playboy Enterprises. Nor do the so-called feminine qualities of consensus building and listening imply a lack of spine, although, as Hefner wryly observes, such traits "were not greatly valued in management books until they began to be defined as Japanese...