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...know what it's like on the East Coast," says D'Aguanno-people in Berkeley say this a lot, seeing themselves as leaders in a very long column of marching people, who have no way of knowing whether stragglers at the column's tail end have put on their hiking boots yet-"but out here for the past 20 years, 'male' has been equivalent to 'negative.' " The group filled to its assigned size of eleven negative males as soon as it was formed two months ago, and there is a waiting list...
...will be made against 1983 profits, meaning that the company's earnings will be reduced by the $5.2 billion amount. Explaining the decision to apply the full write-down in a single stroke, Brown said: "It is generally considered more comfortable to take a dog's tail off all at once, rather than an inch at a time." Profits have been lackluster anyway. In the year's third quarter, AT&T profits fell 28%, to $1.46 billion, continuing a long decline. One reason was the anticipated costs of divestiture. Another, said Brown was the "lingering effect...
...victim to voracious, crocodile-like reptiles called phytosaurs. But by using almost every evolutionary stratagem, they proliferated in number and diversity. Some developed thick protective plating, comparable to that of modern-day armadillos. Ankylosaurus had armor on its skull, knobby stubs over its back and legs, and possessed a tail that ended in a huge bony club. Perhaps to shed excess body heat, Stegosaurus sprouted triangular-shaped fins on its back. Thanks to such biological cunning, within only a few million years, the dinosaurs became the overlords of their antediluvian domain...
Published at the tail end of the most painful recession since the Great Depression, In Search of Excellence could hardly have been more timely. American business, criticized for its sluggish productivity growth and stung by foreign competition, was searching for solutions. For a while, books on Japanese management, like Theory Z, were the rage. Then many executives became intrigued with The One Minute Manager, a piece of pop psychology claiming that employees could be spurred to greater productivity by "one-minute praisings" and "one-minute reprimands." Written by Management Consultant Kenneth Blanchard and Psychologist Spencer Johnson, Manager has been...
...brick mansion, in which he allows them to take refuge. When the wolf attempts to huff & puff this house down, he fails ignominiously. He then tries to climb down the chimney. The lazy pigs are alarmed. The industrious pig builds a roaring fire, singes the wolf's tail...