Word: thanked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sacha Baron Cohen: "Thank you to every American who has not sued...
Pachter briefs us on one of the burning issues in Biz Et: Is it appropriate to say thank you with an e-mail? "I've lessened my stance on it, as long as it's not for a gift," she announces. "We've become such an immediate society. When you send a thank-you note, it could take three, four, five days to get there. People start thinking, Isn't this person going to acknowledge it?" I lean forward as Pachter talks about what to eat at a business meal in a restaurant. "Order what's easy...
Then Post, who has advised such companies as Verizon and Pfizer, wades into the fray around the hottest digital issue. He comes down on the side of paper thank-you notes. Rely on snail mail? Fine, send an e-mail and a card, he counsels. That strikes me as being as impractical as writing with a quill. Another sensitive subject: men helping women in business situations. Should a man hold a woman's chair at the table? The car door? Is it too chivalrous, too sexist? The best policy for men, says Post, is to ask the woman what...
...wrinkled golden globes on my chin, I thought to myself, I better win a bloody award for this." He then described, in awesome olfactory detail, the nude wrestling scene, while cutaway shots showed the swarthy Davitian blithely guzzling a bottle of wine. Baron Cohen ended with a heartfelt "thank you to every American who has not sued...
...After accepting a Globe for his NBC show 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin praised an indie he had no part of, Half Nelson, backstage. The only person to stand up for big-budget multiplex-seat-filling films was Ben Stiller, who plugged his blockbuster Christmas movie Night at the Museum. Thank God someone remembered what this night is all about...