Word: wayward
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...bonhomie, Sasso does not give much away. He is a crafty poker player. Since his return, he has played his cards close to his vest, yet has brought a sense of direction and hope to a wayward campaign. Though outwardly very different, Dukakis and Sasso share a sense of discipline and a respect for what works. Sasso is imparting both to the campaign. He is tightening the organization with the same meticulous care he uses to arrange the notes and message slips that pile up on his desk...
Brokerage firms are resorting to some old-fashioned salesmanship to win back their wayward customers. Steve Hasbrouck, national sales manager for Cleveland-based Prescott, Ball & Turben, tells his brokers to meet with their clients in person rather than make perfunctory phone calls. Says Hasbrouck: "They're much better off sitting down with the client and his family over a cup of coffee." Hasbrouck's brokers, like most in the industry today, inquire more carefully about their customers' financial needs, asking about plans for retirement or children's college education. Brokers need their old clients, and the customers know...
...Flight 655. Certainly this reaction was compounded by the role that Iran plays in American demonology. Nine years of demonstrators in Tehran chanting "Death to America!" have fueled an emotional climate where 290 dead Iranians are deemed unworthy of genuine mourning, even when they are chance victims of a wayward American missile...
...Fountain, a former drug addict who founded the boarding school for wayward youths in 1978, refused to comply and allegedly encouraged his young charges to flee rather than be taken into custody. Despite the charges of mistreatment, many of the children's parents defended the school, which stresses religious instruction along with strict discipline. "When a child is on drugs," said one parent, "you need the help of religion...
First it disrupts the domestic routine, as eggshells and quartered-orange peels are painstakingly transported from city to country to compost heap. Everything must be saved for that site: last year's annuals, the top of the lawn, wayward bits of hedge, all the archaeology of the planting season. Then the catalogs begin to multiply; one nursery carries more than 1,000 varieties of geraniums; another's pages read like a gothic romance. Since all addictions have organizations, the invitations start arriving to join the clubs. There are hundreds of groups for roses alone, not to mention the American Bamboo...