Word: legos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they still look overwhelmed; their eyes flit over everything in our tiny box of a room. There is an awkward silence, and then someone invariably says, "Does...does the Lego phone really work...
Stockholder gripes about executive greed are beginning to make dents in the armor of some of the nation's top brass. A proxy statement revealed last week the first application of Westinghouse Electric's tough pay-for-performance system, which slashed the income of CEO Paul Lego and 13 other top officers by as much as 62%. With that response to the company's $1 billion loss on nearly $13 billion of sales last year, Westinghouse joins IBM, which cut the compensation of chairman John Akers and four of his colleagues by 40% and took smaller cuts from 60 other...
Erik Mitchell, a huge Lego fan by his parents' admission, discovered that there are fringe benefits to having a father who loves Scandinavia; he was able to visit the Legoland theme park on a recent trip to Denmark...
...complex astronomical equations, at a depth they could not have reached in a traditional classroom. "Your role shifts drastically," says Michael Hopkins, lead teacher at the experimental Saturn School in St. Paul, where students track their own progress on desktop computers and fashion programmable robots out of specially designed Lego blocks. "You go from being the presenter, the disseminator of learning, to being a facilitator and a coach...
...find ourselves reduced to basic adjectives, like "happy" and "sad," and erring on the side of including our "monsieurs," and we are obliged to grow resourceful and imaginative in conveying our most complex needs and feelings in the few terms we remember (like a child rebuilding Chartres out of Lego blocks). Think of how English sounds as spoken by Marcello Mastroianni: romantic, suggestive, helplessly endearing. Might the same not be true in reverse? Peter Falk appearing in a German movie (Wings of Desire) seems almost as exotic as Isabelle Adjani in an American...