Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...business in 1980 with $60 million. Now the partnership manages two funds worth $160 million. Cressey rides herd on nine companies, primarily in the health-care industry, including his most promising current venture, Continental Medical Systems, a nursing-home operator. "In the office, we spend all our time juggling phone calls from CEOs, dealing with problems from hiring to firing," he says. "You've got to change your mind-set quickly from one company to another." Cressey spends his free time on a five-acre suburban spread 40 miles northwest of Chicago with his wife Christy and three children...
...quickness has inspired smaller operators to accelerate their pace as well. In Los Angeles, for example, time-conscious consumers can flip through the telephone book to find Speedy Attorney Service, Fast Glass & Screens, Rapid Brake Service, Instant Wedding Chapel and Swift Secretarial Service. The dry-cleaning listings of any phone directory look like a thesaurus entry for the word fast, including the omnipresent 1-Hour Martinizing shops and archrivals with such names as Prompt Cleaners, Presto Cleaners and One-Hour Lusterizing...
...cents-a-night flophouses and cappuccino houses. There, the locals are sure to remind him that the real paradise is that great American city across the sea, rich with Cadillacs and videos and fast-food joints. By now, even New York, least otherworldly of cities, lists in its phone books 27 Edens, nine Arcadias and almost 100 Paradises (including the Paradise Memorial Pet Crematory and Paradise Guard Dogs...
...Washington Post Co., and snooped around the upstairs bathroom where her husband Philip's body was found after he committed suicide in 1963. The uninvited guest said he was sketching the bathroom for a "research project." Members of the Trilateral Commission meeting in Madrid last month received harassing phone calls from people who posed as Israeli journalists seeking information about the foreign policy organization, which LaRouchites believe is part of a sinister conspiracy of international financiers. When one Trilateralist asked if the caller was a LaRouche follower, he sputtered in confusion and broke off the conversation...
...nation's most closely guarded secrets to the Soviets, and the CIA gets all upset about what additional secrets might be let out in trying him. The CIA considers whether NBC should be prosecuted for its reporting. Reagan puts pressure on the Washington Post with a personal phone call to Chairman Katharine Graham. The CIA warns trial reporters not to delve beyond the testimony. No journalist would willingly jeopardize the nation's security, but, the CIA argues, news organizations may not always be the best judge of that. Journalists reply that the CIA has a long history of minimizing...