Word: leans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...straightforward style, and still his mystique grew so potent that his every move sent global financial markets into spasmodic guessing games about what he was thinking. He towered physically above his colleagues, yet instead of lording over them and issuing orders in his basso profundo voice, he preferred to lean back in his big chair and quietly listen to other people's ideas...
MANY OF God's creatures are built for speed: The lean and hungry cheetah. The soaring spine-tailed swift. And let us not forget the turbo-charged Ferrari 380 GTS. But fast as they are, not one of these will able to touch my heels the moment that $64,000 piece of parchment touches my palms. Like a bat out of hell, Alyshiba out of the gate or Larry Bird out of the back court, I will be out of Harvard so fast it will make your head swim and your crops wilt...
George Plimpton is most widely known as the lean and rumpled patrician who trained with the Detroit Lions and then shared that male fantasy with football fans in his best-selling Paper Lion. Now, in The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, Plimpton indulges the fantasy that he is a novelist. The book, which began as a benign hoax in the April 1, 1985, issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is based on a charming conceit: a narrator suffering from writer's block tells the story of Sidd Finch, a British-born Buddhist-trained monk who can throw a baseball 168 m.p.h with...
...firm wins high marks for its lean management but lower grades for its treatment of employees. Top editors are paid well; Helen Gurley Brown, still Cosmo's guiding light at 65, reportedly earns $500,000 a year, plus a slice of her magazine's profits. But middle-level staffers tend to earn less than their colleagues at other magazine-publishing companies, and turnover is high. Bennack and Gilbert Maurer, president of the magazine division, pride themselves on giving editors freedom in running their publications, though the absolute power is not always uplifting. "Working at Hearst is like life...
...such cutthroat competition, McDonnell Douglas has discussed making a truce with Airbus several times during the past few years. The American company suggested that the competitors form a joint venture to build long-range jets together and thus combine forces against Boeing. Says McDonnell Douglas' Worsham: "Instead of being lean dogs fighting for the same piece of meat, we could strengthen ourselves with cooperation." So far, though, Airbus has declined the offer...