Word: touchings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...group set a common goal of getting in touch with their inner manager, a serious exercise in which strawberry roans, pintos and buckskins would be broken down into mere corporate tools. "I saw one of the founders of the Home Ranch work with a wild mustang a few years ago," recalled Mickey Connolly, co-founder and CEO of Conversant, whose clients include much of the FORTUNE 500. "The techniques he used to calm fear and replace it with trust and partnership struck me as crucially important to managers and executives. Horses and cattle are ideal to work with because they...
...under snowcapped Hahn's Peak amid the golden aspens rustling in the early-autumn breeze? Work seems far away, but that morning's Zenesque classroom lessons are giving form to action. Double down on vanquishing the fear, arrogance and ignorance that can mar communication. Practice patience and a soft touch to elevate your horse's confidence in your judgment. Maintain a relaxed awareness of all around...
...secure, trust in the system has actually gone down. Says David Orr, clerk of Illinois' Cook County: "We used to have a problem with giving people the wrong ballots. And if we were lucky, we'd catch it before they voted. Now, if the same thing happens with a touch screen, it's a conspiracy...
...realm of realistic emotions and into the heightened world of satire. The audience is asked to shift from gawking to sympathizing a little too quickly. Videt and the actors do the best they can with this hairpin turn, but can’t save it from being a touch jarring. The set, designed by Courtney E. Thompson ’09, consists primarily of a table and chairs, which the characters forcefully rearrange when agitated. Interestingly, the table is trapezoidal to give it forced perspective, a trick that is also being used on the Mainstage...
...Columbia, students and pundits alike have been pontificating about what student activists should or shouldn’t say and do. Yet much of the debate, from the O’Reilly Factor to the “Kremlin on the Charles,” has remained out of touch with the realities of campus activism. In fact, we are not rabblerousers with pipedream goals who like to make a scene. We are dissidents with purpose who want to remake our community, and in the process, stand in solidarity with communities around the world...