Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Years later a Univac executive would lament, "It doesn't do much good to build a better mousetrap if the other guy selling mousetraps has five times as many salesmen." The Univac episode helped give rise to the belief that IBM's real strength is in selling while its technical prowess often lags. Says Kenneth Leavitt, president of CGX Corp., a Massachusetts-based maker of high-performance display terminals: "IBM tends to be a step behind in technology but very good at marketing...
...deaths-the eleventh and twelfth of foreign journalists in Central America since 1979, but the first in more than a year-sent alternating eddies of lament and reminiscence through the men's colleagues. At the Hotel Maya in Tegucigalpa, and at the Hotel Camino Real in El Salvador's capital, San Salvador, some reporters halfheartedly second-guessed the fatal venture, as if to suggest it need not have happened. The road was known to be dangerous, they argued: two British journalists had been fired on in separate incidents in the previous few days; in his final week Cross...
Excerpt "Painter Richard Lindner said of himself, 'I am a tourist everywhere, which means an "observer." ' Once the emigre rec onciled himself or herself to this position as observer, life became too interesting to lament that if one was a tourist everywhere, one was at home nowhere. Erich Kahler did not learn English until he was close to 50, yet he wrote many works in that language. In 1954 Kahler received a note from his fellow Princetonian the matchlessly resilient Einstein about the persecution of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Einstein understood the American's predicament...
...understand that legacy, by which death ceased to be an enigma and became, not a lament for what might have been, but a hope for what...
...Relations Committee. "He was a real hard-liner two years ago. But now he's talking about a dual track of military and political solutions." Agrees Democrat Clarence Long, chairman of a House foreign operations subcommittee: "I never thought when I first met him that I'd lament the day he left. But I began to find him quite reasonable and moderate." Long figures Enders was fired because "he must have been caught doing the right thing...