Word: steve
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rumored to be bisexual, had propositioned male employees. When two squabbling secretaries did not want to work side by side in his outer office, his solution was to build a wall between them--not a partition, but a floor-to-ceiling wall. It became known around the company as Steve's "Berlin Wall...
...quite ready to tune in on the campaign season. But even in this politically somnambulant moment, when attack ads lodge fitfully between that part of the brain that stores miracle grapefruit diets and the part that remembers Valentine's Day, there is still a discernible trend. Its name is Steve Forbes. And what settles into the distracted consciousness is something like this: Forbes. Not from Washington. Good. Flat tax? Hmmm. Seventeen percent tax rate? Hmmm...
...home of the nation's largest chemical stockpile, the facility was built by EG&G Defense Materials Inc., under contract to the Army. But Utah residents are wary of the military after the atomic-testing scandal of the 1950s. "The firebricks blew up in the kiln at Johnston," says Steve Jones, a safety inspector who was fired by EG&G in 1994, after just three months on the job. "Then they built the kiln in Tooele using the same bricks." The Army contends that Jones was fired for mismanagement; Jones says he was sacked after refusing to sign a document...
...indulgent talk-show host Dick Dietrick, a master of the lame double entendre. Fox, meanwhile, is covering its bases in case Mad TV loses its momentum. This spring it will air a variety show, to be produced by Roseanne, that will alternate with Mad. A second project, from screenwriter Steve Kerper, is, according to Lauren Corrao, a development executive at Fox, "a comedy show so original in its concept it cannot be described." (Hmmmm.) But save for UPN, which is considering, among other things, an adult game show or soap opera to go up against SNL, none of the other...
...disagrees that health-care costs need to be reined in, but the HMO approach of limiting care based on bottom-line profits is wrong." STEVE N. GEORAS, M.D. Baltimore, Maryland...