Word: avoidable
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Glory: The Life of William S. Paley by Sally Bedell Smith. Paley, the founder of CBS and a Manhattan socialite, died not a moment too soon to avoid seeing himself debunked in this best-selling biography. "Paley," says the author, "was as spoiled as a man could be." By the end of her razor- edged narrative, Smith has cut her subject down to where he would have trouble filling a 12-in. screen...
Most Outrageous Bonus Just two months before declaring bankruptcy, the investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert handed out $260 million in bonuses to its employees. Some reaped as much as $10 million. The total was more than twice what the company could have used at the last minute to avoid defaulting on its debts...
Best Reason to Avoid Drinking with the Boys Research showed what experience has long revealed: women can't hold liquor as well as men. Women have far smaller amounts of a stomach enzyme that breaks down alcohol before it enters the blood. Thus they get blitzed faster...
...avoid being discovered by the Iraqis...
...process of survival itself chews up enormous time. It's so absolutely fatiguing. You spend so much time and energy trying to avoid mistakes. One of us rephrased an old saying that we put at the top of our written rules: "Yesterday's gone. Tomorrow will come if we survive today...