Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gates says the government is violating the spirit of innovation by questioning its business practices. He says that a 1990s operating system must, by definition, include a Web browser to be a viable product...
...this stress has inspired corporations like AT&T and Boeing to recruit poets and other spiritual gurus to help managers cope creatively. "I teach people to find a special, still place inside themselves," purrs Richard Sandore, an obstetrician turned Andean shaman healer who founded a company called Soaring Spirit Inc. As a practitioner of "energy healing," Sandore works with Chicago-area businesses to tap the intuition and wholeness "that produced the works of Shakespeare and turned Microsoft into a billion-dollar giant within a decade...
Esprit de corps is a crucial factor in the military. But sometimes the spirit can get a little carried away. For a long time, at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, when night fell and the sergeant was away, the soldier boys and soldier girls did play. And if the sergeant showed up, he was often greeted by a loud "Hello!" The greeting, uttered heartily by recruits standing watch on each floor of the three-story brick barracks, was not quite military protocol. Rather, it was a warning to those engaged in hanky-panky to end their trysts and jump back...
...Grinch, to some--granting stock options to every last employee at Sunbeam Corp. Of course, we still have work to do. Managers of Oxford Health Plans padded their wallets by selling sleighfuls of stock this year, just before the price collapsed. That seems at odds with the giving spirit. O Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, book some time with the HMO's execs...
...North Carolina in the ghostly half-light at the end of the Civil War. Charles Frazier's miraculous (and best-selling) first novel is as spare as timeless myth, one man's yearning homeward. Yet its deeply local details, its twiggy smell of roots and solitary eccentrics, evoke the spirit of Thoreau--and the Taoist hermits who once haunted the Cold Mountains of old China...