Word: preparedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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I am 35 and have never even registered to vote. Then I read in TIME what was going on in Minnesota. For the first time in my life, I tuned in to election results, and cheered all the way for Jesse Ventura! I do believe I will now register to...
I hear that misfortune truly marches like an insect And when time nears Crushed will be the insect, like the singer Crushed by silence transforming him to sound I know that all this foretells mourning What is being prepared in the garage by that black metal?
I picked up some of these nuggets from a wonderfully dated biography by Margaret Ingels (Father of Air Conditioning; 1952). The introduction to this respectful book was written by a Chicago banker, Cloud Wampler, who helped bail out Carrier's firm during the Depression and later became its CEO. Wampler...
That morning Reuther and his colleagues suspected the day's events could escalate into something historic as they prepared to hand out organizing leaflets (slogan: "Unionism, Not Fordism") to the plant's workers. Reuther had put on his Sunday suit, complete with vest, gold watch and chain. He had invited...
Prior to Dilbert, people prepared for corporate America without really knowing what it would be like. Today kids have Dilbert to guide them. I like to think I have steered people away from unpleasant corporate jobs, thus contributing to the entrepreneurial boom. But maybe I've reduced the number of...