Word: leste
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have known how to find the emergency exits. A safety engineer by training and an executive in risk management at Aon, George was almost comically consumed with accident prevention. He evangelized about helmets and seat belts; he even had a decibel meter that he used to measure loud music lest anyone perforate an eardrum. Hilary's dad was just a little late getting home. Maybe he was buried in the rubble, suffering from amnesia, or his cell phone was broken. Sometimes even engineers had mechanical failures...
...officials are trying to ease the adversarial relationship lest their planned turnaround be torpedoed by strikes and other industrial actions. The task has fallen to Lawrence Zahner, 48, an affable, fast-talking Baltimore native who in the early 1970s painted cars at a GM plant at night to help pay his way through college. As GM's vice president for manufacturing in Korea, Zahner has spent his first year on the job trying to use a mix of down-home American good humor and hard bargaining to get the workers' union on board. "My point to them is that...
...didn't want a 60th birthday party but agreed to it under pressure lest I be thought a sorehead, and so all my jowly friends with thin dead hair sang Happy Birthday in their horrible ruined voices and we sat eating aged beef and heirloom tomatoes with a dry but experienced Chardonnay and old pals woofed about how happy and busy they are in retirement and gave me dumb birthday cards ("Welcome to the Incontinence Hotline ... Can you hold, please?") and a cake blazed up like the Hindenburg and some people I knew back when they were fun told...
...while the markets and investors are a vaguely sinister sideshow. Bush's first reaction to revelations of corporate misconduct was to assume the best. Yes, corporate America tripped up here and there, but the subsequent hysteria was stirred up by the overheated media. He didn't want to overreact lest he hamstring honest executives. "He didn't want to do something that would hurt the real economy just to fix a perception problem," says a senior adviser...
...while the markets and investors are a vaguely sinister sideshow. Bush's first reaction to revelations of corporate misconduct was to assume the best. Yes, corporate America tripped up here and there, but the subsequent hysteria was stirred up by the overheated media. He didn't want to overreact lest he hamstring honest executives. "He didn't want to do something that would hurt the real economy just to fix a perception problem," says a senior adviser...