Word: opprobrium
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Businessmen must share the opprobrium for stifling innovation. Says Donald Frey, chairman of Bell & Howell: "The biggest problem in the U.S. is not the lack of inventive capacity but the lack of businessmen willing to take the risk investments." The bottom-line obsession of many managers results in quick payoff investments to retool old products rather than expensive long-term spending to develop new ones. Though Texas Instruments this year will spend $155 million on research, Vice President George Heilmeier admits: "We have become conservative and spend less on basic research...
...tracks deserve special consideration, as they are sure to be singled out for particular opprobrium. "Belsen Was a Gas," a live recording about the infamous German concentration camp which also found its way into "Holiday in the Sun," contains the chilling refrain "Be a man, kill a man" and Rotten's patented looney-bin hysterics. Roland Biggs, the fat old geezer who took over fronting the band after Rotten left, performs his own version of the song, complete with bogus German accent. He also marches on Martin Bormann in his "No One's Innocent...
...President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the army chief who heads the junta that overthrew Bhutto last year. As long as Bhutto remains alive, he is a rallying point for opponents of Zia's regime. But if the once respected leader is killed, Pakistan will be confronted by the opprobrium of Western governments and organizations that are concerned about human rights...
Reinhold Aman is the name in pejoration, not to mention invective, vituperation, obloquy, opprobrium, objurgation, abusive epithets and billingsgate. Aman, 41, is the editor of Maledicta, the International Journal of Verbal Aggression, which he publishes irregularly out of his home in Waukesha, Wis. He can curse in 200 languages and, with the possible exception of Don Rickles, he is the only American who makes a full-time living out of insults...
...compulsive planner?and a congenital optimist?Carter is already well along in his plans to take over the White House, risking the opprobrium of being considered too cocky in order to be sure he is ready. Under Jack Watson, 37, another Atlanta lawyer, a staff of twelve is compiling a talent inventory of possible nominees for Cabinet and sub-Cabinet posts. They are also examining the more immediate questions that Carter would have to face upon taking office...