Word: murph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most collegiate teams have one guy who is the real catalyst for the offense," Dodge said. "Murph shuts them down...
...second goal, I got a beautiful pass from Murph [John Murphy]," Howley said. "I didn't realize I had a breakaway until I looked up and saw that there was no one in front...
Formality is taboo. The president is not Dr. Goldberger but "Murph" to faculty and students alike. Professors lecture in jeans and open-collared shirts, shorts and sandals. They encourage questions and expect challenges. Gray has been known to wear a horse's head while lecturing. Feynman, who played a bongo-banging tribal chieftain in a student production of South Pacific, mixes serious physics with stand-up comedy. And Murph marked the centennial of Einstein's birth by donning pith helmet and chaps and riding an elephant across campus...
...longtime friend, Warren Buffett, 54, a soft-spoken and secretive investor from Omaha. Buffett, who owns 41% of Berkshire Hathaway, a diversified investment firm, is an old hand at deals involving communications companies, but he acknowledges his friend's expertise too. As he told TIME last week, "Murph needs an adviser like Carl Lewis needs a tail wind." Berkshire Hathaway currently owns 13% of < the Washington Post Co., 8% of Affiliated Publications, whose flagship property is the Boston Globe, and 4% of Time Inc. Buffett agreed to buy 3 million shares, or 18%, of Capital Cities/ABC, as the new company...
...hallmark of Capital Cities' management style is de-centralization. Says James Burke, 60, chairman of Johnson & Johnson and a director on Capital Cities' board: "Murph's friends say he delegates to the point of abdication." Notes Cary Reich, executive editor of Institutional Investor: "Except for once, nobody from Cap Cities has ever set foot in our offices...