Word: understand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...understand these feelings and consider that they are natural and human. We have been working on it, and we are still speaking out about the necessity of closing this file. But we also know that America has the practical means to solve the problem if it wants...
Take the existing federal gasoline tax. Anyone can understand it. At a flat 9.1 cents per gal., it's easy to collect and reasonably fair, since the more you use the roads, the more you pay for them. It also discourages things we want to discourage: dependence on foreign oil, the trade deficit, pollution and traffic. As taxes go, this one's a winner...
COLONIAL ATTITUDES. When Britain's Blue Arrow employment firm took over the much larger Milwaukee-based Manpower in 1987, the new owners made little effort to understand the market they were entering, according to Manpower chairman Mitchell Fromstein. He even took offense at the Blue Arrow company newsletter, which he refused to distribute to his 1,400 U.S. offices because it was "poor in quality, provincial and British in nature with little articles about the soccer team in South Wales." Friction grew to the point that Blue Arrow tried to fire Fromstein, but in a battle for control he wound...
...time, Sony gave free rein to CBS Records chief Walter Yetnikoff, 56, to build the unit's creative output. "CBS always treated us like a stepchild, a little, dirty urchin," says Yetnikoff, "but Sony gives us respect. The important thing is, they like the artists and the business. They understand it's more important for me to take Bruce Springsteen's call than Norio Ohga...
THIS fall, the council's primary task will be facing up to the challenges that it posed last spring. Even as the council began to understand its own importance, it botched its responsibility. The ROTC controversy and the Vega concert fiasco were undeniable screw-ups, but they were the kind of screw-ups we associate with an uncertain beginner. Laudably the council was trying out its wings. A few false starts were to be expected...