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Word: letting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Peggy Westfall-Lake, a consultant and author of Shiftwork Safety and Performance, is not about to let any accidents happen at the organization where she works, Williams, an Oklahoma-based energy and communications company. She firmly believes education and "fatigue-countermeasure training" can prevent the problems and costs caused by tiredness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Deep of The Night | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...company's yoga studio. Soft music flutes through the room as half a dozen practitioners, high heels and neckties stowed in nearby lockers, bend and breathe to their instructor's directions. "It's wonderful," Martin says, rolling back to his feet. "I come down here and I let everything that's been happening during the day drop away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Healthy Profits | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...authors discuss every aspect of working life, from what to wear on job interviews (piercings are a faux pas, as are open-toe shoes) to how to deal with berserk telephone calls ("Let the angry caller rant for a minute or two") to how to fire an employee ("Get straight to the point when the person sits down in your office"). The Posts even offer guidelines for office gossip, which the authors believe is inevitable ("You could wind up covered in mud if you dish dirt about the wrong person"). The Posts also deal with private problems, like what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Ps And Qs | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...critic Lionel Trilling noted that authenticity was a relatively modern idea. Until the Romantic era, you were not supposed to reveal your true self to the world. Now, that's all we're supposed to do. But think of our fearless World War II leaders. What if F.D.R. had let it all hang out about his physical pain, or Winston Churchill had talked through his depression? Keeping things to yourself isn't the worst thing for a candidate, a leader--or the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Search for Authenticity | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...also combine words into bigger words and sentences, using the second trick of language, rules. Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that isn't news but when a man bites a dog, it is. Rules let us convey news by reshuffling words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horton Heared a Who! | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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