Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried to do too much for too many people and wound up disappointing the people who mean the most to me: my family and the Williams community (from the president right down to the youngest freshman)," she wrote in the student newspaper...
...White House hoped that Heflin could help the President save face on the Judiciary Committee. But with Specter going against Bork and undecided Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini expected to follow suit, even a pro-Bork vote by Heflin at this stage would probably mean nothing more than an 8-to-6 defeat for the nominee rather than a 9-to-5 loss...
...salary, benefits, perks, overhead, support staff and contribution to profits, and a manager's time is worth $1.50 a minute -- much more in some cases. Says Instructor Larry Baker: "I had a sales force that was responsible for millions in sales, and one of them said, 'You mean if I sit and drink a cup of coffee for five minutes, that just cost my company $287?' Well, yeah, it did." Imagine what it costs when some jerk gets you on the phone and spends 45 minutes networking! "You've been taught that it's rude to hang up on someone...
Shoptalk in a class on managerial effectiveness: "I had a lunatic. I mean, he attacked his boss and chased him out of the building with a stool. Our attempt to fire him failed, so I asked him what he wanted, and he said, 'I want everybody to stay away from me. Everyone is impure.' It was The Twilight Zone. So I said, 'How would you like your own office...