Word: turned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reminded what to do. A top manager coined the phrase "I'm having a bad PMI day." Steve Harris, Chrysler's former communications chief who defected to General Motors in February, says the Germans played literally by the book--theirs. "You'd go into a meeting and have to turn to Volume 7, Section 42, page 597," he recalls. "The Germans pride themselves on analytical research that produces a plan, while the American way is to try for the impossible and keep coming up with new ideas to make it happen...
...turn, the Germans began to listen. The watershed moment came when the Yanks (with a little inside help) persuaded Schrempp in March to drop a long-standing bid to buy Japan's Nissan Motors. Schrempp wanted Nissan badly, to consolidate his empire, and he had been negotiating with an absolutely desperate Yoshikazu Hanawa, Nissan's chairman. But the Americans, who would have been saddled with turning Nissan around, had been uncomfortable with the plan from the start...
...impressionable ones I worry about, and the industry is getting better at getting across its own impressions of reality. The pounding rock music, the crashing sound effects, the shrieks and grunts that poured out of loudspeakers onto E3's crowded aisles could almost turn even a middle-aged father like me into a Doomer. Almost...
...year, we have run many family-related covers on such subjects as homework, Ritalin, genealogy and growing up online. Yet, as our health columnist, Christine Gorman, explains, "the news most useful to people often doesn't make big headlines." It takes an expert columnist to dig it out and turn it into practical advice. And we've recruited two of the best to take turns writing our family column...
Rather than turn kids' sports into object lessons in doing "whatever it takes to win," we parents should consult Rudyard Kipling (no New Age softy, he). In his classic poem If, Kipling wrote, "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster,/and treat those two imposters just the same...you'll be a man, my son." Or a fine young woman. And, what's more, a good sport...