Word: podiatrists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...podiatrist," joked the younger Weiss, whose feet were immersed chilling waters of the Charles...
...Dreams also turn out to be Yang's inventions. For instance, a lamentable bellhop at the hotel (well-played by Blake Spraggins) always seems to have his itchy hand out for a non-existent tip. He later laments that "I should 'a listened to my wife and been a podiatrist" instead of staying with the "bellhop" trade...
...author of a Wall Street market letter, compiles an annual trivia index of items on sale within a few blocks of his Manhattan office. Included on his 46-point list is everything from a Broadway ticket (up 23% over the past two years) to a session at a podiatrist's office (25%) to a local telephone call (150%). Says DeVoe of his findings: "They represent another reason why so many people remain unconvinced that inflation is as low as the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Administration contend...
Crosby acquired his management insights on the factory floor. Though trained as a podiatrist, he never practiced and began work in 1953 as a $75-a-week inspector of radar equipment. He soon questioned the prevailing wisdom that preventing errors was a hopeless goal. By 1961, while a quality manager of the Pershing missile program at Martin Marietta, he conceived the Zero Defects policy, which persuaded workers to sign no-flaw pledges and recognized those with perfect performances...
...story and reported much of the 1976 special issue on the South, found Jackson eager to be accessible. "He carried me along, outlining his ideas all the way, to places where an interview subject normally wants his privacy," says White. These included a shopping trip, a visit to the podiatrist and a call on his ailing son Jonathan, 17, in a Chicago hospital. At the preacher's home in a pleasant black section of Chicago, White watched a brisk basketball game between Jackson and his aides. "His best shot is a kind of rising set shot, fired from...