Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial supermarkets, meanwhile, have been eyeing thrifts as possible additions to their growing line of services. Merrill Lynch and Shearson/ American Express are each in the process of buying a thrift. Stockholders of Newport Balboa Savings Association (assets: $65.2 million) in Southern California are selling the S and L to ITT Financial Corp. for $13.5 million, or $65 a share. The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, would be a bonanza for Newport Balboa owners, who paid $12.50 a share when the stock was first issued...
...most important new source of support for records is unexpectedly coming from television. MTV (Music Television), a cable channel owned by Warner Communications and American Express, has become one of the biggest hits on cable television, beaming out rock music 24 hours a day, seven days a week. MTV, which was being boomed into 9 million cable-equipped homes last December, should reach 13 million households...
...rules are deceptively simple. The boss is instructed to express his demands succinctly, in One Minute Goals. As soon as he can "catch the employee doing something right," he administers Part 2, One Minute Praising: he says something good fast. The authors advise the boss to put an arm around the employee or touch the person in some other way to convey personal affection. During a One Minute Reprimand, the manager is supposed to explain how hurt and frustrated he is by the employee's poor performance...
...individual to prevail against all odds, if he only has faith in himself. "I don't believe it," Luke says in Empire, when Yoda levitates a spaceship. "That," answers Yoda, "is why you fail." It is a complicated universe of the imagination Lucas has laid out to express his themes, and he has tirelessly overseen its evolution, directing the first film himself and assigning the other two to carefully selected subalterns: Irvin Kershner for Empire and Richard Marquand for Jedi...
...Harvard enters into contract negotiations with its food service employees, represented by Local 26, I write to express my hope that the University will emulate the positive labor relations attitude of its neighbor institution. MIT, Last year, MIT and Local 26 successfully negotiated a new contract Talks were not always easy, there had to be give and take, but in the end an agreement both sides would live with was reached without a strike...