Word: schrank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast now, I sometimes feel like a gunfighter dodging bullets." In business especially, the world financial markets almost never close, so why should the heavy little eyes of an ambitious baby banker? "There is now a new supercomputer that operates at a trillionth of a second," says Robert Schrank, a management consultant in New York City. "What's a trillionth of a second? Time is being eaten up by all these new inventions. Even leisure is done on schedule. Golfing is done on schedule. My son is on the run all the time. I ask him, 'Are you having...
...offers security, friendship, "belongingness." This is not just a matter of trading gossip in the corridors; work itself, particularly in the information industries, requires the stimulation of personal contact in the exchange of ideas: sometimes organized conferences, sometimes simply what is called "the schmooze factor." Says Sociologist Robert Schrank: "The workplace performs the function of community...
...invoked and even more rarely successful. Among would-be assassins of Presidents, two have escaped a guilty verdict on the basis of it. One was Richard Lawrence, the house painter who fired at Andrew Jackson during a funeral service in the Capitol rotunda in 1835. The other was John Schrank, the saloonkeeper who shot Teddy Roosevelt in Milwaukee as the former President was en route to deliver a campaign speech...