Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years Grove enforced that narrow margin with a quick, violent temper--the polar opposite of his mentor, Moore. New employees at Intel suspected it was a management trick: Andy getting mad to get results. What they discovered was that the anger was real. Grove had an internal code of excellence, and when someone didn't live up to it, he hammered him. In 1984 FORTUNE named him one of America's toughest bosses. Sometimes even he recognized that he had gone too far. "After I cooled down, I apologized," he wrote of one '80s encounter that had him bellowing...
Keep in mind that some photographs are punctum free but still haunting. One landscape we'll remember is nothing more than a plain littered with rocks. It's fascinating because it happens to be on Mars. Maybe it's just a trick of the light, but the pictures that NASA's Mars Sojourner sent home were some of the most emotionally complicated of the year. The scenery may not be much, but as we know from photographs of the Old West, which Pathfinder's greatly resemble, no-man's-land has always been America's fallback version of paradise...
...manger. Somewhere in the black dots of her eyes there's a message, something about how hard it is to micromanage the most subtle departments of creation. Lamb of God, lamb of man--when we look at her, is that our future we see? Maybe it's just a trick of the light...
...spontaneous--has worked well for Gore over the years. As a Congressman in the early 1980s, he would lie flat on his back late at night in an empty House gymnasium and hurl the ball at the hoop again and again; when at last he could make the trick shot, he unveiled it in a pickup game with other lawmakers. Representative Gore studied the arms race with the same intensity, working 10 hours a week for a year before championing a simple solution to the Soviet first-strike threat--the single-warhead Midgetman missile. He crammed his mind with facts...
...Charles in him, a vestige of the style of upper Cumberland, Tenn., "that emphasizes formalism in public presentation," he told TIME last week. "I think I absorbed that, but I'm slowly learning how to transcend it." Until that happens, Gore's famous stiffness and failure to grasp the trick of compelling self-presentation are no small problem. His own boss is the best possible example of the advantages that go to politicians who can mass market the human touch. And Gore's success in positioning himself as a centrist may actually have made his shortcomings as a personality more...