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Peters attributes this reluctance to accept women at the pinnacle of the corporate world to "the clubby atmosphere, the unspoken rules at the top." Since so few senior executives can win the top jobs, talent and qualifications are not the only characteristics determining the victors. Some chief executives seem to be unable to think of the female manager as a stand-in, a potential successor. Says Monet's Evans: "The chief executives of most major U.S. corporations have never worked for or with a superbly qualified woman. They know us only as secretaries, wives and lovers. This group is simply...
Many of those who are unwilling to accept the continuing salary gap or the frustrations in reaching the very top are leaving corporations to set up their own firms. Launching a company offers some indisputable advantages. Says Kay Koplovitz, founder and president of the cable firm USA Network: "The best way to get to the top for a woman is to start there." Says Sandra Kurtzig, founder and chairman of ASK Computer Systems in Los Altos, Calif. (estimated 1985 sales: $100 million): "My being a woman is just not an issue. I'm the boss. They'd better be comfortable...
...seem like an insolent little boy, casually "grinning" at his wife and sister and not taking his fate seriously. Michael has committed a grave error, for which he will pay the price. The smile was merely an attempt to comfort his tearful wife, who is having to learn to accept the fact that through no fault of her own, she will not have her husband for the next decade. Margaret Walker Norfolk, Va. Altered Image...
...should the Target react? Must he docilely accept this new aggravation? If he ignored the ZIP code entirely, thus challenging the U.S. Postal Service to try to find the historic town of Lexington without any numerical clues to guide it, would the letter go hopelessly astray? Sure, he has heard the postal authorities' soothing declarations that the nine-digit ZIP is designed to move mail faster and at a discount to firms that use it, but he suspects that if that thing poking under the edge of the tent looks like a camel and smells like a camel, it probably...
Thomas Cavanagh was a Northrop Corp. employee with military secrets to sell. In search of a buyer, he called Soviet emissaries in the U.S., arranged a meeting and offered "Stealth" bomber technology for a piddling $25,000. Even for so little, his hosts were not about to accept. The FBI had intercepted his original call, and the men to whom he was hawking his wares were undercover FBI agents. He was arrested, convicted and sentenced to life...