Word: teamworks
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...viewers of "Breaking Away" are aware, teamwork is as crucial to good bike racing as cunning. "Both John and I try very hard to develop the team concept," co-coach David K. Smith '58 says, says, "because when you're drafting with teammate, you only use 80 percent of the energy...
...their teamwork on the road proved, Gumbel and Pauley go together like bagels and cream cheese. Gumbel, who hosted NBC's professional football coverage before replacing Tom Brokaw on Today in 1982, has rapidly grown into an incisive interviewer adept at cutting through mushy answers. During an interview with Louisiana's slick Governor Edwin Edwards last month, for example, Gumbel kept sweeping away the politician's charming patter to discuss the impact of Edwards' recent indictment on conspiracy charges. For her part, Pauley displays a more empathetic style, laced with a self-deprecating wit, that works best when...
...scouts were continuing their hunt for acquisitions. Hughes Aircraft was an early favorite. Considered a rival to Bell Laboratories as an electronics developer, Hughes was precisely the type of company that Smith sought. "They are a storehouse of technology," he says. "Hughes' single biggest asset is its brainpower and teamwork." But Hughes coveted its independence and initially spurned GM. The rebuff turned the automaker toward Electronic Data Systems, a Dallas-based computer-services firm that Founder H. Ross Perot had built into the largest company in its field. Smith sees E.D.S. as the key to upgrading GM's worldwide computing...
Like few other Hollywood directors, this one embraced multitudes: Gunga Din and James Dean, Cary Grant and Anne Frank. Exploiting the movies' passion for teamwork, he wrote gags for Laurel and Hardy, struck the first sparks for Tracy and Hepburn, directed Fred and Ginger in their most sublime pas de deux (Never Gonna Dance, from Swing Time). And yet, in Alice Adams, A Place in the Sun and Giant, he displayed an affinity for ambitious outsiders with their noses pressed against the frosted window of the American dream. Maddeningly meticulous, he could earn a laugh by simply waiting...
...performing arts students; they are fifth and sixth graders, for whom dance class isn't just the last hour of their schoolday. As participants in Citystep, a program that brings undergraduate dancers into four Cambridge public schools to teach children to dance, these children are learning not just teamwork but also a new mode of communication--movement...