Word: line
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 you should do if a co-worker has bad breath or smelly feet. Their bottom line: etiquette is a fancy name for good behavior in the workplace...
...most depressed and paranoid, when the tobacco industry was trying to smear him, when his marriage was failing, when he was drinking and eating too much. Crowe, without even meeting Wigand, nailed the part in a single reading, says Mann. "He was truly in the moment. In one line of dialogue, I saw Jeffrey Wigand there...
...manner as smooth as the draw of a Kool menthol into the lungs, and every bit as toxic. A CBS attorney (Gina Gershon) softly, crisply tells the lords of 60 Minutes that they must submit to a higher authority--Mammon. The byline is nothing compared to the bottom line. It's a dark reality that Mike Wallace (a deft impersonation by Christopher Plummer) has to juggle. Does his loyalty belong to his current CBS bosses or to the ghost of Edward R. Murrow...
...line between real and authentic gets harder to discern. With Gore, it varies from moment to moment. When he chirps about devoting his life to "change that works for working families," he is just spewing a contrived phrase. But for what it's worth, I think I saw a bit of the real Al Gore a few years ago when I interviewed him about the environment. The session was supposed to last 15 minutes. It went on for 90 as Gore talked about ozone depletion, at times pulling out charts like a college professor. His passion seemed pretty real...
...world's finest port management companies and few observers believe it's an arm of the Chinese military," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "Besides, under the treaty with Panama, U.S. Navy ships keep their privilege of cutting to the front of the line of vessels waiting to pass through the canal...