Word: dumbness
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...Jackson and the team. As for Martin, he viewed the incident as the turning point of the Yankee season. "I won my locker room back," he said. "Jackson cost this club a lot of games this year. He's a decent, smart man, but he's baseball dumb...
Steinbrenner felt it was Martin who was baseball dumb. In the middle of July an event took place that Steinbrenner insists was the true turning point. He had flown to Milwaukee for an evening meeting with Martin and then went to bed. Shortly after midnight, two key players, Munson and Lou Piniella, knocked on Steinbrenner's door. They were distraught about the chaos on the team and bluntly told Steinbrenner that the Yankees could not win with Martin as the manager. Was this the way the owner ran his other companies, they challenged him? Steinbrenner was somewhat startled...
Allison said some potential donors to the Kennedy School have reservations about the expansion and professionalization of the public sector. However, he said people are beginning to realize "the proposition that dumb government is going to be good government is just a mistake...
...should try fishing around for a solid script next time. Rudolf Nureyev is the subject for Russell's current experiment, and the results are no cause for pride. Admittedly, Nureyev took on a task more daunting then Daltrey's. While the rock star merely had to portray a deaf, dumb and blind parody of himself in a rock opera that his group had created. Nureyev was asked to bring to life one of the all-time classic leading men in cinema history, a giant of an era that the ballet virtuoso never knew. The role demands a certain presence...
Powell limited the damage by apologizing to Percy, who graciously accepted, saying he understood that "emotions were running high" at the White House. Powell reported that he had told Carter that his action had been "inappropriate, regrettable and dumb-and the President did not disagree with my assessment." As Powell also apologized to the Washington press corps, Hamilton Jordan slipped a chrome-plated artillery round onto the podium. Attached was a note: "Although you get close to getting lead poisoning from biting the bullet, you won't. This, too, shall pass." It was signed, "Bert...