Word: woodworking
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...with the offices and plumbing dismuntled and the addition fixtures, carpeting, and $60,000 invested in the woodwork alone, the Spee basement has changed drastically...
...sucked away from running the company," says Allen Michels, whose stock was worth $11.5 million when Convergent Technologies went public in 1982. "Politicians come knocking on the door; donations are sought from charities you never heard of; friends you've forgotten about come out of the woodwork; former adversaries become intimates." Observes Financier William Hambrecht, co-founder of Hambrecht & Quist, a San Francisco venture-capital and investment-banking firm: "Most of the guys who have failed are the ones who stopped listening and got carried away with their own ego. All of a sudden they became folk heroes...
...lacocca. Three years ago, when Roger B. Smith, a 5-ft. 9-in., red-haired man with a squeaky voice, moved into the walnut-veneered chairman's office on the 14th floor of the General Motors building in Detroit, he was expected to blend into the woodwork. Smith had joined GM as an accounting clerk in 1949, spent his entire career with the company and was unknown outside the automobile industry...
...everything in her quirky tale seem perfectly probable, so internalized is the logic. At times, however, the feminist themes do turn reductonist. During one of Harry's visits home, the teenage daughter is wondering whether to take carpentry or ballet as a school elective. Her mother is all for woodwork as opposed to Harry, who advocates that "any girl with swell legs should take ballet." One is left with the lingering suspicion that May could only have married Harry to provide the book with an unsavory male presence and the kids with an unsuitable role model. Aside from Quayle...
...testified for the Government in the trial, says Vesco has a waterside villa near Havana with a private dock and a yacht. Bettini recounted flying to Havana in Vesco's private jet; even though Bettini had no visa or passport, airport officials "just faded into the woodwork" when Vesco appeared to meet...