Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ullman's call for help for private enterprise might have seemed startling a few months ago, but at the conference it was the unchallenged wisdom echoed by speakers of many viewpoints. Former Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson, now head of Wall Street's Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, coupled a persuasive appeal for steps to foster the development of new businesses with a wry observation that "an investment banker calling for a cut in capital gains taxes has all the credibility of Dracula asking for charitable contributions to the blood bank...
...raise productivity, Grayson argues, is for companies to give everybody the three R's: recognition, responsibility and rewards. Recognition in the form of plaques and photos on the wall, company dinners and other visible backpats for imaginative, high-output workers. Responsibility through allowing individual initiative to ride high, including breaking up long production lines and impersonal offices into teams of workers who choose their own leaders and decide for themselves how to get the job done. Rewards by means of bonuses of cash or time off-or both...
...with the lyrics since both she and Jimmy know Nelson's hits by heart. The setting was the White House lawn, where Nelson, the king of outlaw country, put on a stompin' good show last week. The most eye-opening song of the evening: Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother. The President himself, a stock car racing buff and Nelson's No. 1 fan, had planned the party for members of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, some of whom rolled up to the "diplomatic entrance" in their Day-Glo colored "stockers." Alas, Jimmy couldn...
Down through Delaware and Maryland these mothers and even grandmothers on the lam from home for a few days checked out the truck drivers, waved at cute boys, and nudged each other incessantly. After dark they started in on a round of "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall." As the night drew on they moved to moodier songs, including some of Elvis's. Twenty middle-aged women singing "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" on a Greyhound bus. Although there were men on the bus, there were only three besides myself. One had been dragged along by his wife--he hunched...
...scenes, including pills, acid, mescaline and cocaine (which he didn't like). He is now a confirmed marijuana smoker. When he goes too long between tokes he says he gets "hyper." His famous quick temper begins to flare at insistently ringing phones (he rips them out of the wall), officious security guards or-a special vexation-closed doors. "I can't tell you how many doors he has kicked down," laughs Connie. "Sometimes he even has the key in his pocket...