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...come out on top. In one film clip, former Pittsburgh Steeler Quarterback Terry Bradshaw is shown on the sidelines during a game bragging to a teammate about how well he "read" the opposing team's defense. Another tape, based on In Search of Excellence by Thomas Peters and Robert Waterman, shows Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse leading a march at Florida's Disney World. A narrator's voice off-screen intones, "If you are looking for excellence in American business, this parade is a good place to start...
Street Creds: Former member of economics faculty of MIT and Harvard; member of President’s Council of Economic Advisers; winner of Alan Waterman Award from National Science Foundation, 1987 and John Bates Clark Medal, 1993, for work in economics; former chief economist of the World Bank; Secretary of the United States Treasury, 1999-2001; former fellow at Brookings Institution; member of National Academy of Sciences...
...know what to make of her. To some, she brings a badly needed dose of authenticity and passion to a candidate who struggles to convey both. "I don't understand Kerry, but I'm nuts about her, because she talks about health care and children's issues," says Eileen Waterman, 57, a nurse in Albuquerque, N.M. To others, she embodies everything that doesn't work about Kerry. Baer Woodrum, who runs a Shoney's in Aiken, S.C., says he can't imagine Kerry doing well in this Tuesday's primary, in part because "his wife, I hear she's really...
...Waterman "Preface" fountain...
While sterile disposability and space-age technology have their place, that place is not in your hand. Today, you are a fountain pen. Modern in its sense of history, the fountain pen has been the stylus of choice since 1884, when the first workable model was invented by L.E. Waterman, a New York City insurance salesman. Its undisputed flow dried up 60 years later, when, thinking "time is money," the man in the gray flannel suit ushered in the ball point pen introducing a new level of corporatization and homogenization to America. In the years following, America flourished...