Word: temperedness
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To colleagues at Dallas-based American Airlines, Robert Crandall, 47, is one of the smartest executives in commercial aviation today, a man who, says one, "forces you to think on higher levels." He is also short-tempered and sometimes ill-mannered, a man who has a low frustration level. To...
Each Monday, Thurman left her husband Jonathan David, a cinematograpner, in Manhattan to work 16-hour days in a Long Island cottage. There she subconsciously evoked a mood by wearing Dinesen's favorite perfume, Fracas. "It was eerie," she remembers. "The identification was very deep." Almost every line demonstrates...
The dynamo behind the little machine is something of a mighty mite himself. Short (5 ft. 4 in.) and stocky, the Polish-born Tramiel is hot-tempered, keeps his executive echelons in turmoil, avoids photographers (colleagues have dubbed him "the Howard Hughes of computer dom") and calls himself a "graduate...
Lewis and Benjamin Jones are identical twins born in a farmhouse just on the border of England and Wales. The year of their coming is 1900. They are children of this century; yet their childhood could easily have transpired 300 years earlier. They measure their growth against the ageless progress...
Several factors are responsible for the cooling of America's love affair with space travel. The repeated shuttle flights make the launch pad routine and the plumes of fiery smoke much more matter-of-fact. This $11 billion project is far, less dramatic than previous NASA endeavors. The uses of...