Word: playground
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Buffett said. “I got unconditional love from my parents...and I’ve been blessed in that I love what I’m doing so much that I have no desire to get away. I’m playing in my playground and I don’t let the world decide my schedule.”Buffett sat down with the Harvard group for two hours on Friday afternoon. Students were eager to hear the Berkshire Hathaway CEO’s tips for financial success.“Investing is not about having...
...Cathay has tried to turn its global training headquarters near Hong Kong International Airport into a temple of team spirit. Employees can wander into classes for yoga and belly-dancing and get a drink at Dhakota's, the company bar. "It's like a big playground," says Steve Lawrence, one of Cathay's training and development managers. The rooftop patio hosts just about every hokey team-building exercise ever invented. Trainees regularly participate in 100-person lap sits, in which each person sits on the next one's knees, forming a circle while trying mightily to stay balanced. There...
...home fathers [Oct.15]. My husband stayed at home for a total of five years to care for our daughters, who are now 5 and 2. In that time he cooked, cleaned, did laundry, planned playdates, remodeled our kitchen, put in hardwood floors and built a backyard playground. He also bartended on weekends to supplement our income. Only real men secure in their masculinity can give that much of themselves...
...response, the police gave the advice any parent would give about that horrid playground bully of grade school—just hang up and ignore him. But this was apparently not enough for some survivors of the verbal attack, who reported feeling “terrified,” reduced to tears, or deeply disturbed. Some—it should be said, not all—women wanted the man tracked down and stopped. The police should do something, they said...
...their roles--as well as in their marriages, with their children and with their health. But even they worried about how the rest of the world viewed their choice--with some reason. "There's definitely a stigma out there," says Rochlen. "The dads tell stories about mothers on the playground looking at them like they're child molesters or losers...