Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Management Consultant Robert Bramson's nosology of office malcontents and combatants [March 17], I add the memo writers, a species especially pesky to bosses. The memo is such a potent weapon. It gets under the skin and demands attention. I should know. My boss replied with a pink slip...
...does not look the part. A 225-lb. man of 54, Bunker Hunt dresses in inexpensive brown suits, though he bridles when they are called cheap ("I don't know where you can buy cheap clothes," he says). He neither smokes nor drinks, drives himself to work in a 1973 Cadillac, and lists his phone number openly in the Dallas telephone directory. His taste in food is plain. Says one associate: "He is the kind of guy who will order chicken-fried steak and JellO, spill some on his tie, and then go out and buy all the silver...
...than his own top advisers. "What the hell is going on?" asked Campaign Manager Stephen Smith as he encountered Strategist Edward Martin in a corridor of the Halloran House, the Senator's headquarters hotel in New York City. Replied Martin, with a grin: "How the hell do I know?" The following day, Jimmy Carter asked the same question while speaking at a fund-raising dinner in Washington for Democratic congressional candidates. Said he: "I am sure that a lot of you are wondering what happened in New York and Connecticut. You're not the only ones...
...writer supported Kennedy to protest Carter's economic policies. Said she: "I'm not pro-Kennedy in any way. I have a basic distrust of the man." Ithaca Magazine Editor Bryant Robey, 39, regarded his ballot for Kennedy as a "message to Carter that I no longer know where he stands on the issues. Leadership is not taking a poll and trying to jump ahead...
...single major elected official has publicly supported him, in contrast to the avalanche of endorsements for Carter, who has methodically phoned most of the state's Democratic leaders for chats about politics, usually at their homes on Sundays. Said a top Pennsylvania Democrat: "He may not know much about running the economy, but he is damn good at running a campaign...