Word: letting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that jetlagged jawboning in the wrong language is taking its toll on top managers. The stress has already led to some marital de-mergers, including Schrempp's. The chain-smoking CEO is so determined to make DaimlerChrysler the world's No. 1 transportation-services company that he let his 35-year marriage collapse, because, as he told the German tabloid Bild last month, "the merger means more to me than anything in the world...
...laughs. "Well, then, let me show you this nice family game we've got called Joey the kangaroo." And with that he pulls out a brochure for Joey's Count 10, a teaching game for preschoolers...
...Quigley, president of Capitol Records in Nashville, Tenn. "We have a Stevie Wonder period, a Babyface period." Still with us? Good, because when the film comes out, an entirely different set of Chris Gaines songs will be released as a sound-track album. Ah, if only the Padres had let him play right field...
Suddenly a new world unfolded before me. Where once was the boringly familiar Windows desktop, now was something that looked like the footprint of a four-toed gnome. Where does the footprint lead? What are the pitfalls ahead? I'll let you know when I find...
There will be a lot of wringing of hands, whining and asking why, but the truth is that as long as we let society exist with no leadership, no morals, no ethics, no respect for others and contempt for family values, what we have just witnessed may be only the beginning of horrors we cannot even imagine today. You want to know where the problem lies? For most of us, the answer is no farther than the nearest mirror. DAVID WRAY Littleton, Colo...