Word: workload
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent workload doesn't inspire muchconfidence...
...night before, I studied all my options. I memorized all the key CUE figures, averaged them, compared them and cross-indexed them. I tried vainly to comprehend the deeper significance of phrases like "a smattering find Professor X's lectures uninspiring" and "a significant minority grumble about the workload." For advice, I phoned close friends and e-mailed total strangers...
...Bureau of Study Counsel, which offers tutoring and courses in study skills, used to give a mandatory introduction to managing workload and studying at a college level...
Arthur Morse, a onetime Chicago ad executive, encountered a common and much subtler approach. Four years ago, when he was 63, Morse relates, his agency brought in a "30-ish" woman to "relieve" him of some of his workload. "I could see the handwriting on the wall," says Morse. Two years later his job was eliminated, but he was given another assignment. That too vanished in a year, and "my career was over," says Morse. "Nobody wants to talk to you because of your age or your salary" ($65,000 in his case). In July, Morse, still unwilling to retire...
...Bill and Andy both consider that period to be one of the rockier ones for Wintel," says TIME senior editor Joshua Ramo, who interviewed Grove for the Man of the Year issue. Such tension is hardly surprising, given the way chip technology has taken so much of software's workload over the last decade. But while Gates gave Grove credit for "stepping back" on the software issue in a 1996 conversation published in Fortune, Grove claimed he "basically caved." Said the Intel boss: "Introducing a Windows-based software initiative that Microsoft doesn't support... well, life's too short...