Word: wrighting
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Chief among them was Rose Bird. Only 40, with no experience as a judge, she moved up from state agriculture secretary to head the court in 1977. In contrast to the gentle persuasion effectively practiced by her predecessor, Donald Wright, the bright, hard-working Bird offered aloofness and abrasion. Her manner soon cost her the services of Ralph Kleps, the able administrator of the state's judiciary. Another casualty was collegiality, the glue that enables seven independent thinkers to meld their views into cohesive decisions. Then in 1979, the court endured the public debacle of a state investigation...
...decade ago, however, De Lorean seemed exotic. His high profile, in all of its manifestations, rankled some straitlaced executive colleagues. Others simply wearied of his professional swagger. "When John was at General Motors, people either loved him or they hated him," says J. Patrick Wright, a business journalist who wrote De Lorean's 1979 memoir, On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors. According to the book, De Lorean's febrile management style, impolitic brilliance and impatience with bureaucracy worked against him. In a chapter called "How Moral Men Make Immoral Decisions," De Lorean makes much...
...just glad that I wasn't faced with this kind of temptation." William Collins has known De Lorean since 1958, when they worked together at Pontiac, and until 1979 was vice president of DMC. "I think his fantastic ego just drove him to do almost anything," Collins says. Journalist Wright blames De Lorean's blinding ambition: "He wanted that company to work. He wanted that car to be successful. He wanted to show the people here in Detroit he could...
...promising start. As Protestants and Catholics alike prepared to cast their ballots for a new assembly in Northern Ireland last week, a streak of violence marred the occasion. David Wright, 61, was teaching a class of ten-year-olds in the border town of Newry when a man burst through the door, unwrapped a sawed-off shotgun, and shot Wright twice in the chest. The Irish National Liberation Army, a Marxist splinter group of the outlawed pro-Catholic Irish Republican Army, claimed responsibility for the attack. The next day James Molyneaux, leader of the Protestant Official Unionist Party, fled...
...theater production of The Pirates of Penzance, but convinces the incredulous Peluce of his credentials by whisking him off to Egypt, 1450 B.C., where they discover Moses in the bulrushes; France, 1918, where they frolic during World War Iand Dayton, where they peek in on a couple of querulous Wright brothers and help get them flying. The youngster, of course knows all about history, while the oft-addled time traveler ("Smokin' bats-breath! This isn't 1492!") makes up in grit what he lacks in gray matter...