Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American tourists abroad. No longer is the charter trip uncertain and uncomfortable. Such is the buying power of travel wholesalers that packagers can almost always provide better rooms and entertainment for the price than the individual can negotiate. Says Air Florida Official Robin Cohn: "It's almost stupid not to take a charter package...
...answer" rather than a brusque nyet. In a response to critics who have charged that the Reagan Administration was not negotiating sincerely in Geneva, Shultz added, "There are those who argue that in negotiations you make an offer, and if nothing is forthcoming, you offer something else. That is stupid, because you are negotiating with yourself. The name of the game is to negotiate with the other side...
...House access. Working from Reagan's speeches or off-the-cuff remarks, they often find themselves having to correct his misstatements of fact. "The operative word is ignorant," Curtis Wilkie, a Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe, told Hodding Carter. "He's lazy. He's not stupid. He's shrewd. He's a smart politician." Sam Donaldson of ABC added: "You combine a very mechanized, ruthless ability to control the flow of news and Mr. Reagan's absence of a lot of depth . . . and you have a situation that just drives...
...Fleshtones also pull some catchy melodies out of their musical bag. "Deep in My Heart," with its ubiquitous "cheesy" Farfisa and Zaremba's mock crooning matches Romans Gods's "Hope Come Back" for hook quotient, while the mockingly stupid "Screamin Skull" competes with the Cramps' "Human Fly" for pure schlock brilliance...
Between women's lib and gay lib, the sexual twists at the modern office can get grotesque. Mazzei devotes a chapter to "Women at Work" and another to "When Cupid Gets Stupid." Among his guidelines: do not compliment women for wearing appropriate business dress; be sure to tell your employer if you are bringing a gay lover to a formal company occasion. Mazzei offers a couple of pages of suggestions on the issue of a kiss on the cheek, warning that it can often end up with "a clash of eyeglass frames and a lot of confusion." When conducting...