Word: fielding
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...thing, he brings an instinct for journalistic values to the task of selling ads. For years he has delighted in meeting regularly with TIME editors to learn about the stories after each week's magazine is published. Then he takes his sales pitch into the field. "Making a sales call with Dick is a little like a religious experience," says TIME U.S. advertising-sales manager Barry Briggs. "By the time he finishes his delivery, the congregation is on its feet...
...dangers of thalidomide. After moving to the U.S. in 1984, he took over Atlantic Monthly press (his only previous book-publishing job) and later U.S. News and World Report. Since 1987 he has been editor-in-chief of Conde Nast Traveler, where he stressed tough reporting in a field usually satisfied with puffery...
Along with these policy-oriented jobs, Powell has served in demanding field assignments from infantry adviser in Vietnam to commander of an Army corps in Germany to chief of all forces in the continental U.S. He winces when anyone calls him a "political general" and claims he is "just a foot soldier." In fact, no one climbs to the top of the military hierarchy without political instincts, and nominations to the top command are as political as Cabinet appointments. Representative Dave McCurdy says everyone who deals with Powell learns "they don't come smoother than Colin...
...coming off a 34-20 loss to Princeton in which they gave up 21 points in the first five-and-a-half minutes of play--but don't expect the Quakers to fold so easily at home against Harvard. It hasn't lost to the Crimson at Franklin Field since...
Computers, she said, are key to the school's three major areas of study: architecture, urban planning and design and landscape. But such functions require constant upgrading of the system so that students have access to the most advanced methods in their field...