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...Management Consultant Robert Bramson's nosology of office malcontents and combatants [March 17], I add the memo writers, a species especially pesky to bosses. The memo is such a potent weapon. It gets under the skin and demands attention. I should know. My boss replied with a pink slip...
...mention the territorial imperative. Will the newcomers possess large marauding dogs or, worse, teen-age children? Will they fill up their front yard with rusting automobiles, set up a permanent garage sale in their driveway, sell cosmetics or encyclopedias door to door, deal hard drugs, paint their house pink, fire pistols randomly at passing cars and pedestrians . . . ? Such fears usually remain unrealized, but they still retain the power to induce night sweats, anxiety attacks during the hour of the wolf. Having horrid neighbors seems a small problem, given the generous range of human suffering, until they actually move...
...starting time, the sun had set and the sky painted a navy blue backdrop, with traces of pink scraping the horizon...
...holes closed up for the Cornell attackmen and a tightly ordered Crimson defense went to work. The line of Haywood Miller, Scott Pink and Frank Prezioso snuffed out the the Cornell firebrands with ease...
...years of playing side by side allowed Miller, Pink and Prezioso to read each other's minds and those of the opposing offense. The Crimson scooped up 60 ground balls to Cornell's 45, establishing clear superiority on the recoveries...