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Mission: Control.(control freaks examined and understood)
Mission: Control
Her closets are organized, her checkbook is balanced, and that dress from high school still fits her. Why it's not so bad to be a control freak. By Judy Bachrach
Bachrach, we're going to examine your closets, and by extension your life," said my former friend Janet some years ago, after a quick glance at what I was wearing: a black skirt with a brown V-neck sweater. And brown flats. She gave an involuntary little shudder -- a response my outfits always seemed to provoke in her. "Black and brown don't go together," Janet continued, ticking off the visual assaults on her beautiful fingers, tipped, as always, with freshly applied crimson ...
- Control freaks.(Editor's Note)(Editorial)
- Magazine article from: Reason Gillespie, Nick February 1, 2004 700+ words
THE THEME OF this issue might be dubbed "control freaks." Several of this month's stories unmask ways in...section of your daily newspaper. How best to counter the control freaks? The stories in this issue are a starting point. Every...
- THOUGH MODERN LIFE IS SPAWNING MORE OF THEM, THERE ARE WAYS TO NEUTRALIZE THOSE...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Goodnow, Cecelia June 8, 2000 700+ words
...says psychologist Les Parrott III, who wrote the book on control freaks and admits to some control tendencies himself. There are...we use now to get organized make us feel in control.'' Control freaks victimize themselves as well as others. They risk high...
- Control freaks.(keyboard keys)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Personal Computer World Nott, Tim March 22, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Tim Nott Control freaks Everybody knows that holding down the Control key and pressing C copies the selected text, and most will know a few other Control...
- CONTROL FREAKS SPOIL THE PARTY; Curb on questions will hurt Labour...
- Newspaper article from: Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales) October 11, 2009 700+ words
...rein to ask the three leadership candidates questions at hustings meetings shows the party has not escaped the clutches of control freaks. Thousands of party members from all over Wales will be invited to five closed meetings in different parts of the nation...
- Control freaks or trust in people?
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Anthony Sampson June 16, 1995 700+ words
...tempted to control their business through money, rather than through people. Armed with printouts and spreadsheets, the control-freaks have entered new kingdoms. They can be brilliantly successful in reducing staff, ensuring discipline and maintaining budgets...
- Control Freaks. (Correspondence).
- Magazine article from: The American Prospect Bennett, Matthew July 15, 2002 700+ words
...with falsehoods and half-truths about Americans for Gun Safety (AGS), Nicholas Confessore didn't check with us ["Control Freaks," April 8, 2002]. Our "plush new offices" are just a few feet from TAP's own. Confessore botches his analysis...
- Control Freaks. (Correspondence).(Brief Article)(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: The American Prospect Jarvis, Carolynne June 3, 2002 700+ words
NICHOLAS CONFESSORE'S "Control Freaks" [April 8] purports to deplore divisiveness within the gun-violence-prevention movement, but in the process actually foments...
- Control freaks.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Cohn, Bob February 28, 2000 700+ words
...with an iron fist. But college basketball coaches seem to keep theirs perpetually clenched. If all coaches by nature are control freaks to some extent, these are the freakiest. Unlike their football or baseball counterparts, they deal with a reasonable...
