All of Carver's citations mentioned his coolness under fire, and he did not suffer fools gladly, even when they were his superiors.
Yet, for much of its two-hour running time, I sat gladly, even with curiosity, through a movie for which the ending was obvious from the start.
AS the founder of Astronet.com, an astrology Web site, Eugenie Diserio will gladly, even proudly, tell you that until recently she experienced plenty of setbacks, broken hearts, horrific blind dates, cars that broke down and unemployment.
But not long ago it withdrew from an alliance with Germany's Volkswagen (VW), which could have helped it sell small and cheap vehicles in developed markets overseas.In this section Smartening up their act A fork in the digital road Switching channels Against the grain Lots of oomph A guide to skiving ReprintsMazda, an even smaller firm, gladly parted ways with Ford.
Salary reduction, he says, actually shifts the burden of meeting employees' child-care needs from employers "back to government and individual workers--despite the benefits accruing to business from a work force more productive because of stable child-care arrangements". Even employees who gladly take advantage of such plans may be ambivalent.
Even so, I most gladly adhere to it.
At the New York Philharmonic, Mr. Masur faces a group of employees with a reputation - deserved or not - for not suffering conductorial fools gladly or even politely.
J. J. Abbott, his spokesman, said that in a perfect world — one in which the legislature was not dominated by Republicans, as he put it — he would gladly provide even more support for working families.
Round two came the following morning, in an e-mail reply from Rogers: "I rarely suffer fools gladly, and even more rarely bother with chauvinistic know-nothings, but since you sent this ludicrous canard......
