Word: mold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eaton, 53, Trotman, 60, and Smith, 55, each spent his entire career within the auto industry. Still, they were unconventional choices for its top jobs. None of them fitted the mold of the clubby headquarters men who filled the executive suites before them. Detroit's three new CEOs have begun to introduce a similar management style into their very different corporate domains. Modesty, humor (especially of the self-deflating variety), open discussion, candor and team play are all in. Pomp, protocol, pretension and paperwork are distinctly...
...Because the community is very small...it is very easy for the community to throw you outside if you don't fit a certain mold," he said...
...first of these options more forcefully than any 20th century president except Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. But the Memphis speech was the first time he firmly embraced the second option and asserted his presidential role as a moral leader and a source of national inspiration in the mold...
True to form, Colwin's hero and heroine are just regular folk. They don't want to cause any trouble. Although carefully crafted, they certainly don't break the mold of characterization. Teddy plunges periodically into brooding funks stemming from the deep spring of childhood neglect and a broken family; otherwise, he reassures his wife with his deliberate, undaunted demeanor. Jane Louise gnaws rabbitlike at her anxieties, the classic neurotic New York...
...main disappointment of Late Night with Conan O'Brien is that it fits so comfortably into the Letterman-fashioned late-night mold. Another tall, Waspy male with a facetious, wise-guy attitude, drawing writers from the same pool of ex-Harvard Lampoon staff members to help deliver a nightly mix of topical jokes and goofy comedy bits. In its search for someone to take over the time period where Letterman reinvented the talk show, NBC might have tried something truly different: a show with real interviews, for instance (a Larry King for the twentysomething generation), or maybe even (radical thought...