Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sony didn't need a techno-whiz, it needed a global manager who could master the ever increasing complexity of the digital marketplace. "Right now, you don't need to be an engineer," says Ohga. "You have to have a nose, and if you don't, you can't run a company like Sony...
...know where they went wrong," he says.) A self-professed martial-arts expert (who pronounces karate kah-dah-tay), he once escaped from prison by carving a bar of soap into "the most perfect-looking pistol you've ever seen," and he is described by the FBI as a master of disguises. He once proclaimed, in his faintly Continental intonation, "The thing about art theft is the Robin Hood element in it." Not your common thug...
...Sharon, Mograbi in real life still abhors the man and his politics. In a statement released about the film, Mograbi notes with some regret that this film may give Sharon "a free ride into the hearts of some who have a monstrous image of him." Mograbi is a master mimic and manipulator of film, but his occasional imitations or unflattering shots of Sharon do not leave a negative impression of the politician. Even when the camera lingers on Sharon's portly belly or dwells on his ungraceful manner of eating Sharon maintains his dignity. As a critique or a satire...
Herschbach credits his experience as a co-master of Currier House in the early '80s as giving him insights into the lives of students, noting that he and his wife Georgene, who works in the Faculty administration, were in some sense living the life of students...
Herschbach, who calls the experience of being a House Master "strenuous" and "special," is known for taking on new projects with zest. At the age of 45, he began playing the viola after being inspired by his daughters' musical interests...