Word: luck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's this friend of mine, let's call him Harpo, who's on a streak of bad luck Jimmy the Greek wouldn't believe. Not much is going right for him. He is in debt. He doesn't know what he's doing. He enters contests, he never wins. Cars break down on him during first dates and across from 125th Street. And he tells me he just took a beating in the weekly poker game last night. Everyone folded on his best hands...
Self-Improvement. Women executives, say Hennig and Jardim, are passive and overspecialized. They underestimate their own achievements and often attribute their successes to luck; even when highly competent, they doubt themselves and spend much time on self-improvement. Men-those who become top executives anyway-assume they are competent and set out to see that somebody important realizes it. Women play it safe, wait to be recognized, then blame themselves when they are not rewarded-rather than raising the corporate equivalent of the athlete's cry: "Play me or trade...
...latter would have enjoyed more luck had they brought slide rules instead of bats to the plate against Brown and three relievers, who allowed neither hits or runs over the final four frames...
...dinner that night. She showed us pictures of St. Thomas, and encouraged us to sleep late the next morning. But instead we repacked and tried Morristown Airport and Caldwell Airport and, it seemed, every other airfield in New Jersey. We never found the tanned young man. We had bad luck: the wrong weather, the wrong days of the week, the wrong time of year. But it was more than bad luck, everyone told us: in the last two years, hijackers and insurance companies and too much publicity have taken almost all of the wind out of air hitchhikers' sails. Corporate...
...nomination for Premier at a special caucus of the central committee. Yitzhak Rabin, forced to step down after disclosures that his wife had illegally maintained bank accounts in the U.S. (TIME, April 18), was among those who lifted hands in assent amid shouts of "Mazel tov [good luck], Shimon...