Word: worrier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from its restless chairman -- is its inability to sit still. What other companies see as wind at their back, Microsoft sees as turbulence from competitors catching up. "A revenue-generating franchise is the most fragile thing in the world," says Myhrvold, who, like Gates, is something of a professional worrier. "No matter how good your product, you are only 18 months away from failure...
Even Marty Zweig, Wall Street's most notorious worrier, isn't worried about the Mexican market. He's too busy worrying about the U.S. market, which he believes is dangerously overvalued in an environment of rising interest rates. But Zweig directed me to the Mexican analyst who is highly touted by his trading desk: Caoimhe Royds of Natwest Bank in London...
Saul Bellow's It All Adds Up (Viking; 327 pages; $24.95) adds up to a stimulating kvetch, a nonfiction Herzog. Like that novel's title character, Bellow shows himself in this collection of essays and criticism to be a great complainer and world worrier. He is, as the Herzog jacket copy described the book's hero 30 years ago, someone who "cannot keep from asking what he calls the 'piercing questions...
Lindsey is also the official worrier, often pacing in the back of the room, not easily contented. Last week it was he who fretted to associates that the vacuum created by the Governor's lack of activity in the early days of the transition had created a number of not fully favorable stories. "Bruce isn't satisfied if the Governor just hits the ball out of the park," George Stephanopoulos, the campaign's communications director, is fond of saying. "That ball has to go out of the park, over the river and through an apartment window...
...small, wiry man with wispy hair, a fringe of white beard and seemingly inexhaustible energy, Cronyn is the organizer and designated worrier in the family, the one who moves them from place to place. "When we like to be rude, we call Hume 'the Cruise Director,' " says Cooper. "Because if you're not careful, he will plan your whole day for you. He sometimes frets a bit too much, but Jessica is used to it, and I think she enjoys it. He's the one who has always made things work in their lives...