Word: saws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fought him on the size of it until I saw it. The whole charm was the big size of the bird," she says...
Director Robert G. Myhrum '48 encapsulated a generation of television, as he shaped the field in its formative stages, and then exited nearly 30 years later from a world which he saw as overly formulaic and corporate...
Personal security is a factor in this new, wide-open world. A growing number of companies are taking extra steps to ensure their employees' safety as they log those mega-miles. Don Hubbard, national director of security for Coopers & Lybrand, saw the need to bolster the company's international travel-security policy after an executive was trapped in a Mexico City restaurant by three gunmen, robbed and released. Hubbard contracted the services of an international advisory service, accessible to all 19,000 of the firm's employees through the Internet. Hubbard can also send out "all-hands e-mails," with...
...most part, hotels and airlines alike are scrambling to impress customers. "I saw this coming a long time ago and told my staff to prepare for it," says Steve Halliday, general manager of Singapore's 800-room Pan Pacific Hotel, which is located next to the convention center and caters mainly to business clients. Halliday recently outfitted the place with 200 computers to better serve his clients. "You've got to kill the customer with kindness," says Halliday. "In a word: service. Do things differently this year." In the current economic climate, the hospitality industry is finding that it takes...
...Pope is unlikely to grant an extension. Made Archbishop by Pope Paul VI at the church's liberal apogee in 1977, Weakland by 1984 induced the Conference of Catholic Bishops to write a pastoral letter calling American poverty a "moral scandal." From then on, almost every year saw a bombshell lobbed at conservatism in general or--so it sometimes seemed--John Paul II in particular. Vatican ideological crackdowns had produced "much cruelty," Weakland wrote; many competent women "feel they are second-class citizens in a Church they love"; the Pope's decree that an all-male priesthood is divinely directed...