Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Psychometric tests abound. "This is a good little instrument for surfacing data," says an instructor as he hands out a 90-question "preference inventory." In his class on managerial effectiveness, William Zierdt offers individual analysis of the results, adding, "I also read tea leaves, or you can bring your own chicken." Thus a volunteer learns that he's a decision- making rationalist with no emotional content. "Hell, that's success in the business world," says Zierdt...
...given away lots of bicycles and wagons to people less fortunate than us," says Nora. She has joined Ron on the porch and sips a cup of Yerba Buena herb tea. Today even the witches, famous in this valley, must be yielding to the sun, loosening their joints in this welcome reprieve from the chill...
...people need and want increased food production, and that they will get. At the same time, we will combat inflation with a greater supply of consumer goods to meet demand. It will be a balanced development that should result in a surplus of such exports as coal, oil, timber, tea and frozen seafoods. We are firing those not qualified, prosecuting those who abuse privilege and are corrupt. Our newly appointed younger managers will make decisions with brains in their heads, integrity in their hearts...
...traditional fiction and imaginative journalism that invites renewed appreciation of one of the most gifted writers of his generation. "He writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm," wrote Norman Mailer nearly 30 years ago. The early Southern stories have the delicate tinkle of glasses of iced tea; a touch sweet, perhaps, but clean and cool. "The Headless Hawk" (1946) is set in Manhattan and offers a sketch of the author as he may have seen himself: "He was not so handsome as he supposed, but handsome all the same. For his moderate height he was excellently proportioned...
...industrial worker. Says he: "When they read the age on my application, I wouldn't get the job." Unwilling to settle into retirement, Clark registered with an Atlanta agency that found enough temporary jobs to keep him steadily employed. Last year, while working on the production line at a tea-packing company, he asked a well-dressed stranger who wandered by how he could get a permanent job. The stranger, who turned out to be the president of the company, hired him full time...