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...their additional responsibilities, they can be forgiven if they sometimes long for the days of the easygoing men's club. Wrote Robert Mueller, chairman of the Arthur D. Little consulting firm, in his book Behind the Boardroom Door: "At board meetings the one unmatched asset is the ability to yawn with your mouth closed...
...family. Of all the flops of last fall, perhaps the most unexpected was ABC's Paper Dolls. Set in the chic world of New York modeling, the series seemed expertly designed to satisfy the audience's yen for opulent-looking trash. But viewers responded with a gigantic yawn. The show's failure must have caused some nervous gulps at rival NBC, which was busily preparing a glossy soap set in the chic world of New York retailing. Oops...
...surprising that the President lost his concentration. Mondale makes people yawn...
Most Californians yawn when the subject of earthquakes comes up, but for the worried few there is earthquake insurance. New policyholders paid premiums of about $70 million last year, and public interest is growing. But a recent state report warns that many insurance companies would not be able to pay off all the claims they would face if a quake the size of San Francisco's 1906 calamity (8.3 on the Richter scale) struck again. Losses for a quake of similar proportions, says the report, would reach $5.5 billion in Los Angeles and $3.9 billion in the San Francisco...
...predict $174.2 billion of red ink in fiscal 1984, which ends Sept. 30. That would swell during each of the following three fiscal years, to $201.2 billion in 1987. How then can anyone talk about deficit "reduction"? Only by calculating that if nothing were done, the gap would yawn even wider, to $269 billion three years from...