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...felt at the time: "If you corner a rat and you are about to butcher it, O.K.? The way I responded was viciously and savagely, just like a rat." Notes Psychologist Morton Bard: "One could argue that Goetz was reliving the earlier incident when he pulled the trigger. The difference is that he acted out dreams of retaliation that most people resolve through fantasy." Goetz's subsequent explanation was more explicit: "I know in my heart I was a murderer . . . I just snapped...
...took days for Iacocca to get over his hurt and bewilderment over the "sayonara" brouhaha. Clearly, he still has an uncertain feel for the hair-trigger proprieties of national politics. In the past his Japan bashing had never provoked such alarm. "Jesus, it was a closed meeting! These single- issue guys--I mean, what the hell's going on? How'd you like to do that for a living every day? I don't understand it." Joseph Califano, who has worked for the past three Democratic Presidents, does understand it. Says Califano: "The only guys who get shots...
...building site, the executive simply hits a button and lets the computer come up with a recommendation. Naturally, the last word does not rest with the machine. The user is free at any time to adjust the criteria and watch how those changes affect the proposed outcome. Thoughtware's Trigger ($495), another management assistant, helps an executive track his business's performance. Should sales, costs or inventory, for example, get too far out of line, the program warns the boss and automatically generates a memo to the manager responsible, asking for an explanation of exactly what went wrong...
...Rejected the argument that Harvard's divestment would be merely a one-shot deal and that less caring investors would buy up its stock: "I think that the holes left in apartheid left by a Harvard withdrawal would not be filled. It would trigger an ever-expanding hole in apartheid...
Berman said that someone pressed the alarm to trigger a buzzer on the first floor, which was heard by Scott E. Dlugos...