Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Turn the page and read something else. Unless your fingers are coated with Super Glue...
...whatever it is that you do, I always get them confused," I commanded and began sorting through the day's missives. I leafed quickly past the rejection letters from humor magazines whom I had told that I was a shoo-in for the presidency. They all tended to read the same: "Dear Mr. Oakley, you told us you were going to be president, but we hear that you were absent-minded and forgot where you placed $100,000 of Lampoon money. Thanks for your interest in our publication, but we don't care how prestigious your organization...
...with David Letterman. Most of it was a typewritten form letter, with the usual blank spaces for personalization--like "Dear blank", "thank you for your interest blank", "thanks for your time blank", and "now get lost blank"--except for the handwritten note at the end of the letter, which read "as a result of your application Mr. Blank, we have decided to stop hiring graduates of the Harvard Lampoon until your publication can show that it is capable of producing people who are both funny and can massage Mr. Letterman's buttocks...
...prices and wages spiral out of control, business strategy is virtually paralyzed. Says Thomas Michael Lanz, director of a Sao Paulo electronic-tools company: "We are all lost. We can't plan, we can't set prices, we can't decide whether to hire or fire." Senhor, the widely read Sao Paulo-based business magazine, put an upside-down map of Brazil on its cover last week with the headline GENERAL CONFUSION...
...East Room last week with just the slightest hitch in his stride. The healing from his prostate surgery was almost complete. He stood as straight as ever. Beneath a huge banner, QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE, he gave the 200 assembled businesspeople a talk that was fully ripened Reagan, expertly read from two TelePrompTers...