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...could get you fired. It happened to Terrell Owens. And to Bobby Knight. Donald Rumsfeld got us mired in Iraq, but all the talk after his booting was about his sneering intransigence. Rupert Murdoch canned Judith Regan after her much booed O.J. Simpson memoir, but the publishing exec's rude behavior apparently sealed the deal. Sutton tells of law firms and Wall Street shops now purging their louts. As more corporations adopt codes of conduct that outlaw boorishness, we may see managers stapling the broken contract to the pink slip...
...important for you to set a good example in that regard - lest future directors and producers throw your spendthrift ways in your face evermore? No. That would be rude. Everyone has his or her own style of working. Clint Eastwood is one of my role models in that regard and I don't think he does it for any reason other than impatience and the belief that after five or six takes of a scene it gets stale. In my experience, actors do their best work earlier in the process than in the 30th or 40th take. It just came...
...life. Everything is moving discombobulatingly fast. Globalization accelerates. Wall Street booms. Outside San Francisco, astounding fortunes are made overnight, out of nothing, by plucky nobodies. The new media are scurrilous and partisan. Marketing spin and advertising extend their influence as never before. A fresh urban-youth subculture has emerged, rude and vibrant, entertainment-fixated and violence-glorifying. Christian conservatives are furiously battling cultural decadence, and one popular sect insists that the end days are nigh. Ferocious anti-immigration sentiment is on the rise. Both major American political parties seem pathetically unable to deal with the looming, urgent issue...
...still remember staring at my computer screen at the start of my first shift, gasping at the though of calling a stranger and asking them for money. How rude...
...increase. "You cannot expect these people to change overnight," concedes Rakesh Agarwal, a spokesman for NyayaBhoomi. "We realize that now. This behavior is ingrained into their DNA." Enforcing regulations might help, but the Delhi transport authority seems less than enthusiastic about policing faulty meters and following up complaints about rude drivers. According to the Hindustan Times newspaper there are currently more than 71,000 complaints pending against "errant auto drivers", more than the total number of auto rickshaws in all of Delhi. Last year authorities inspected fewer than 5,000 autos for faulty meters, just under half of which proved...