Word: interruptible
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...obligingly produced a red-cheeked, smiling Santa and then forgot about it. But his Santa was chosen from 500,000 entries, and last week it appeared on a new 1984 Christmas stamp. "I feel real happy, it's an honor," says the lad who had to interrupt his Halloween to sign autographs. Success has not spoiled the young artist, but time has inevitably made him a little wiser. Asked about Santa's reaction to seeing his stamp arrive at the North Pole, LaBoccetta replied, "Why, I don't believe in Santa Claus any more...
Mondale appeared tired and read his 25-min. speech in a lackluster singsong. ("The speech was typed better than it was read," groaned one of his supporters.) Nevertheless, the force and eloquence of the language prompted his obviously sympathetic audience to interrupt him with 24 ovations. The speech struck hard and often at Reagan's remark about intolerance. "B'nai B'rith is opposed to Mr. Reagan's [school-prayer] amendment; I would not call you intolerant of religion," said Mondale. "Baptists, Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans and other church groups also oppose his amendment. And they...
McCormack gives detailed advice on how executives can save time. He says that a manager should rarely accept a phone call. That would interrupt his work flow. Instead, he should return the call at a convenient time. McCormack considers most staff meetings unproductive. Says he: "If more than four or five people are in attendance, decision making is probably next to impossible...
...this the best assignment I've ever had," says Leifer, "it was the best I've ever heard about." It was certainly one of the longest: 18 months from first proposal to final prints, involving substantial amounts of planning, travel and especially diplomacy. "Persuading star athletes to interrupt their training schedules and sometimes go hundreds of miles to pose for pictures took a lot of cajolery," recalls Leifer. "So did getting officials at the Parthenon to close the temple early so we could shoot in late-afternoon light and convincing the Chinese that I indeed wanted to shoot...
...keep a discreet distance be tween themselves and their guest. "I'm here because I was invited by different governments," Botha declared upon arrival in Lisbon, though most of the govern ments concerned were saying that he had invited himself. When asked about the demonstrations that threatened to interrupt his travels, Botha bristled, "We live in a free world. It is everyone's right to demonstrate, even to make fools of themselves...