Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never tire of listening and hoping. So perhaps it was a natural out growth of our own fervent mythmaking that the great march in Washington a fortnight ago hinged its new agenda on the defeat of Ronald Reagan. Get a new man in the White House, the 300,000 people seemed to say, and the desires of 700 disparate marching organizations - whether they be chiefly concerned with black progress, gay rights, women's issues, environmental problems, unemployment or nuclear war - will be instantly gratified. How splendidly simple; how cruel to themselves...
...should top managers deal with this problem? If this appears to be a "purely sexual, transitory affair," the best advice is to ignore it in the hope that one executive or the other "will soon tire of the romp." True love, whatever its virtues, is a more difficult issue. Collins' ultimate solution is for the lower-ranking executive to leave the company, although the person should be given help in finding another job. Writes Collins: "Coming to the recognition that someone must go is painful but, I regret to say, inevitable." Collins concludes that unresolvable conflicts of interest will...
...Administration pegged the saving to consumers at up to $50 a car. But the consumer-oriented Center for Auto Safety contends that one of the scuttled rules-a requirement that new cars have a dashboard gauge warning drivers of low tire pressure-would have saved at least $300 in better gas mileage from properly inflated tires. Claybrook, who has now resumed duties as an aide to Ralph Nader, charges that "NHTSA has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Detroit manufacturers...
...technique and unshakable concentration are his most powerful adhesives. He may work out a sequence of ten or so moves to take him up an overhang hundreds of feet in the air, then discover that the route cannot be forced any farther. Without delay, before his muscles begin to tire and shake, he must then perform the ten-move ballet perfectly in reverse order. "You can't forget the fact that you're right next to the edge all the time," he says. "If you make any kind of mistake, you're going...
Fifty years is a long time. Perhaps Eddie Murphy will show nothing more than firefly form: a flash of lightning followed by critical and popular pans. Perhaps he will tire of squeaky-clean living and head for Pryor-like self-immolation. Perhaps he will cease to be an entertainment event and become an agreeable habit, working a Vegas lounge, living on tired blood and the public's memories. But if he keeps going as he is going now-young, gifted, black and hot-he can hope for the ultimate backhanded compliment. On a Saturday Night Live in 2033, some...