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Rudenstine's speech was filled with humor and a "few modest proposals" on how to approach the future confidently...
...From freshman football, I remember banging repeatedly against a tall, immovable tackle with a modest demeanor who made the varsity and played in 1947, 1948 and 1949. He had a red crew cut and had been captain at some school called St. Marks. His name was Doug Bradlee...
McAuliffe learned the art of banter across the dining-room table of the modest home he grew up in in southwest Syracuse, N.Y. Terence Richard McAuliffe, the baby of the family, took an early interest in politics. Father Jack, treasurer of the Onondaga County Democratic Party, took the boy to fund raisers at age five and gave him tickets to sell a few years later. One of his dad's mottoes sank in. "You gotta show up" to gain the trust of people, he would tell young Terry. Jack, who earned a living in real estate, was the original networker...
...short video (up to 15 megabytes) and put it on the site. And I could even add a chat feature so that the up to 25 people at a time who could be connected could exchange messages with me in real time. Since I am by nature a modest exhibitionist, I password-protected Little Al so that only people I invited could see me in my native habitat--staring vacantly at my computer. Maybe eating a doughnut...
Nevertheless, there have also been changes in our way of doing business that could eventually work to improve customer service. From the modest beginning signaled by the promise of "easy to assemble," we have trained people to pump their own gas and be responsible for installing and fixing their own telephones. We now have "assisted self-service," or hold for the hot line, in which someone is eventually made available to tell the customer to look around the store to find what he wants, wait around all day for home service or call around until a representative can be made...