Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Okay, maybe that won't impress your grandchildren. But you never know. And you won't even have the opportunity to say that unless you come to the games...
...employee fails, that is okay too. Failure, says Pinchot, should be regarded as a learning experience and must be permitted within firms. He writes that large companies are good at coming up with sound ideas, but they are generally poor at carrying them out because of a "morass of analysis, approvals and politics...
...unusual stagings, such as a flooded warehouse being used as the theatre for a 1983 production of the play. Generally, the law is not on their side. Beckett can allow particular changes in his play without opening the floodgates to any changes. If Beckett thinks a flooded stage is okay as a backdrop for minimalist drama, but a ravaged T-stop is not, that is his legal prerogative. It is also a defensible artistic prerogative. Eight thousand gallons of water is, for example, an a historical, "elemental" setting in a way that a subway car identifiably belonging to a Boston...
...Mike Deaver out of the Administration, all bets are off on the ideological chemistry of the second Reagan term. But what cries out, largely unsuccessfully, for comment is the new resonance these moves give to the unpleasant principle expressed by too many members of the Administration--that it is okay to use public office for personal gain...
...says leadership and inspiration, not operations, are Ueberroth's managerial gifts. Whenever his lieutenants bucked decisions upward, Ueberroth flung them back down. "Authority is 20% given," he would say, "and 80% taken. Take it." If someone faltered, Ueberroth did not hesitate to make a change. He once had to okay the firing of a friend of 25 years. Later the friend wrote and told Ueberroth he was cold and inhuman, especially since their families had been so close. The letter stung Ueberroth, but associates say his decision was right...