Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liveliest, most farcical point of the show comes when Andrew Watson and Caroline Bicks play Standish and Emily, a husband and wife who make a magnificent mountain out of a molehill. In a hilarious huff, Standish swears retribution for his brother's tarnished reputation--"Binky Byers made a remark to him in the steam bath...
Mowat is scrupulously fair: he shows his subject antagonizing co-workers as she lurches from tantrum to euphoria and back again, but he praises her meticulous observations of animal life and her unceasing struggles with poachers and politics as she fights to save the mountain gorillas from extinction. Her Africa is not the ordered master-and-servant backdrop of Isak Dinesen's tales. Three French visitors make a wrong turn on a back road and get fatally detained by Congolese troops. Fossey angrily tells her family, "They were reportedly tortured . . . hung on racks, finally eaten. The Congo...
Some telecommuters fear they will be passed over for promotions because they ) never see their bosses. Managers who can no longer look over employees' shoulders worry about losing control over their work. Several firms, including Travelers and Mountain Bell telephone company in Denver, have decided to give managers special training courses before putting them in charge of telecommuting workers. For one thing, bosses need to learn how to measure actual results rather than visible activity...
...many other companies, however, telecommuting seems to please both labor and management. Mountain Bell claims that its telecommuters are 35% to 40% more productive than in-office counterparts. Says William Benham, chairman of the company's telecommuting division: "Employees who work at home develop independent work habits. They learn to set goals." He predicts that by 1995 one-third of the 69,000-member work force at Mountain Bell's parent company, U S West, will be telecommuting...
...surprisingly, the earliest models in the 1960s were hopelessly simplistic. The earth's surface was often reduced to one continent with one ocean, fixed cloud cover and no seasons. But as computing power grew, so did the complexity of climate modeling. Continents were added. So were mountain ranges, deeper oceans and surface reflectivity...