Word: tasked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Toward the end of the dinner, David B. Orr '01--who is chair of the Undergraduate Council's Anti-Homophobia Task Force and also attended last night's event--spoke to the conservative students assembled...
...same sensitivity to people's state of mind that she showed with Conrad--she asks the man about his daughter and about the progress of his new home. The unspoken message is that she understands how full his plate is. She leaves him with a so-called structured task, as planned. It is important, she tells me, not to "outshine the client" by "being a superstar"--again, remaining apolitical is the consultant's key to helping client staff change things...
...smartest girl I know can't read. She can't ride a bike without training wheels or count to 100. She can't concentrate on anything for more than a few seconds. Sitting still is a task. Trapped by language, she speaks in fragments where her thoughts come out as indistinguishable hodgepodges of sound. She used to speak with more clarity, but she is frustrated that in her 14 years of life, she has had so many ideas, dreams and opinions that she could not express in words...
...hones in. Shemmer instinctively organizes his pitch into bullets and subpoints, neatly lining up Broadview's advantages and the competitor's downsides like he might at a client presentation. It's a habit of the analyst mind. Later, when a new co-worker asks how to do a particular task, Shemmer responds, "Walk me through it. Why would you do that...
...later book, Stages of Reading Development (1983), described how the task of reading itself changes and gets harder as children grow...