Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Company officials must next overcome a powerful impulse to run for cover from the press and the public. "Executives often bury their heads in the sand and refuse to communicate. But adopting a bunker mentality is always to their own detriment," says Fink. Moreover, he continues, "many companies go astray by lying." When that happens, the public loses faith in the firm, and its products, which may never be restored...
...perfectly or not at all. "I had this do-it-right complex left over from the wool business," she says. "And I got into the food thing because Michael was so positive about it. And it was really neat. You read these recipes, and it was like making a sand castle or doing a chemistry project. To do it right, it had to look exactly like its picture in the cookbook...
...would be hard, for instance, to find a better epitome of the expressionist vision of relationships between humans and nature than Kirchner's Striding into the Sea, 1912, with its naked lovers swept up in a kind of decorative pantheism, at one with the flouncing breakers and sharply writhing sand dunes of the Baltic shore...
...creatures are the apparent prey of Mr. Lonely Death, "a happy child in the fields of the Antichrist." With the aid of a local detective who would rather be writing novels, the narrator winnows a weird field of suspects and runs the killer to earth, or in this case sand. Thereupon "all the souls of all the people lost and not wanting to be lost . . . wailed...
...health services, complains that other "high- priority programs will suffer because of pressure to divert funds from them to anti-AIDS programs. We can't afford this, since there is no evidence of AIDS." Dr. I.S. Gilada, secretary of the Indian Health Organization, considers this a head-in-the-sand attitude. "There is no special immunity to AIDS that Asians enjoy," he says. "By the time we diagnose the first case, it would have spread like wildfire." Gilada's view matches that in the world health community: while panic and hysteria are not called for, only a large dose...