Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barnet followed his own rules to the letter. He arrived early every morning -not to get any work done, but to peruse the desks of everyone else in the office, thus keeping one step ahead of his superiors. He would gleefully fill me in on his findings the moment I arrived, the first wave in a day-long deluge of chatter that made it impossible for either of us to get any work done. My life became a mind-numbing swamp of monologues about who got what promotion, why it was undeserved, which employees hated each other and why. "That...
...Contends David Grove, a former IBM vice president who heads his own economic consulting firm: " To get inflation under control, everyone has to sacrifice. There has to be a willingness by the public to forgo tax relief, tolerate tighter money, and not put tremendous pressure on the Government to step up spending for pet programs." Adds Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Bank: "The key question is, what happens when unemployment starts moving up to 7% or 7.5%? Will the Administration have the guts to hang in with a moderate policy that provides some long-term...
...confrontation between show-biz folk and so-called real people. In Real Life, the comedian plays himself, an entertainer who is making a documentary about a typical American family, the Yeagers of Phoenix (played by Charles Grodin and Frances Lee McCain). But Brooks takes An American Family one step further: he records not only the Yeagers' daily activities but also his own. In other words, Real
...approves of only two: one an interview in last week's Harvard Gazette, and the other a Globe story by Charles L. Whipple. "The Whipple article pointed up errors in the Journal article and said the press, in this case, was wrong," said Raiffa. "That's a very gracious step to take...
Stress the political benefits of SALT II. The treaty is another step on the road to cooperation with Moscow. Kissinger's original conception of detente held that limited cooperation would lead to cooperation instead of conflict in ever-growing amounts; in a sense, he expected that cooperation would train both sides in conflict resolution. Such training, provided by a successful SALT pact, could come in handy in future crises. Besides, accepting SALT II will help convince the Soviets that we are not backing Peking in its histrionics in Southeast Asia; this will reduce edginess in the Kremlin, and perhaps even...