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...management tries to tailor their managing style to each individual." Yanker says, noting that this means giving more independence and greater purview to a manager who shows a stronger sense of responsibility or who learns the trade more quickly...
...record of one such expedition and the longest piece in this collection, belongs on any short list of great 20th century stories. Its narrator is an excruciatingly proper and longwinded sort who turns a day's worth of rambling into a small comic epic. He jousts with a tailor over a defective suit: "The sleeves suffer from an objectionable surfeit of length, and the waistcoat is eminently distinguished in that it creates the impression and evokes the unpleasant semblance of my being the bearer of a fat stomach." His adventures are many, but nightfall brings them...
People for the American Way (PFAW) picked the forum for a showdown over texts because Texas, as the nation's second largest purchaser of schoolbooks ($60 million this year), sets a tone for books throughout the U.S. by influencing how publishers tailor their texts. Says Barbara Parker, head of PFAW's National Schools and Libraries Project: "Censorship activity is so well organized that the only way to combat it is through an equal amount of organization. If 93% of a community doesn't want The Catcher in the Rye, that's O.K. That...
...bolt of cloth was sent along to Beverly Hills Tailor Frank Mariani, who makes all of Reagan's suits. He went to work with the quiet confidence that comes from knowing his customer's taste: two-button coat, medium-width lapels, pleated trousers and six buttons on the fly. For $1,200 the suit was a beauty, and Mariani suspected back then that it might be destined for fame. "The President likes his clothes," explains Mariani. "He builds a fondness for them...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy or The Spy Who Came out of the Cold, by John Le Carre...