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...meetings short--say, 10 minutes--and quickly lost patience with anyone not prepared. Then would come the famous Greenberg tongue lashing. His former daughter-in-law Nikki Finke, who knew the family throughout the 1970s and was married to eldest son Jeffrey in the early 1980s, recalls family ski vacations in Stowe, Vt., where Greenberg would settle into his big easy chair and ottoman next to the phone and spend hours dialing subordinates. "He'd be screaming into the phone, cursing at people and calling them idiots," she says. "I never heard anything like...
...ski team is in the process of going from a very small, unseen group of people with occasional stars like Anna into what hopefully will be a much bigger more prominent team like those we competed against,” Harlow said in an e-mail...
...murder of Caroline’s uncle, Robert F. Kennedy, only a few years later and the death of her cousin, Michael A. Kennedy ’80, following a ski accident in 1997, left her emotionally...
They stuck together through their undergraduate years, rooming together in Eliot House, taking excursions to ski slopes or football games, and chasing “women around to the extent that the women would allow us to,” Leeson remembers...
...reports aren't always negative. Mystery shoppers also help employers create incentives for exemplary service. Some shoppers see themselves as crusaders, punishing bad behavior and rewarding unsung heroes. Intrawest ski resorts recently handed out $100 bills to workers who scored especially well on a secret-shopper report. And a top-tier hotel rewarded its staff for finding a way to supply an undercover guest with the late-night Pepsi he requested from the Coke-only establishment. "It used to be about catching people doing something wrong," says Mike Bare, MSPA's co-founder. "But more and more, it's validating...