Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pree, who retired two years ago as Herman Miller's chief executive officer, is hardly a soft touch. At performance reviews, he regularly grilled top managers on such soul-searing topics as "Who are you?," "What have you abandoned?" and "What should grace enable us to be?" In a similar vein, De Pree provides a list of telltale signs that a company is in trouble. Among them: a proliferation of manuals, the disappearance of "tribal stories" that preserve a firm's traditions, and a "dark tension among key people...
RECENTLY, and seemingly always, Congress has drawn criticism for its lack of principle. From one scandal to the next, the institution has lumbered along, completely out of touch with the values of the people...
...plane circled Boston for nearly an hour as it dumped fuel over the ocean. The jet, coming from New York's LaGuardia Airport, made one rough touch-and-go landing at about 10 a.m. in an effort to jar the front wheel loose from its housing...
...part is the power of these programs to validate the importance of what educators are doing in their professional lives," says Clifford H. Baden, the PPE's director. "We bring them here, give them a professional development program that informs them about content and theory and puts them in touch with some of the best thinkers in the country on these topics...
...process, it also puts them in touch with their peers from around the country who care about the same issues and lets them know they are not alone in their concern for whatever issue they are concerned about," Baden adds...