Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crashing through the highest of glass ceilings to become the CEO of computer maker Hewlett-Packard. Although her appointment has not been so ballyhooed as Sandra Day O'Connor's becoming the first woman Supreme Court Justice or Geraldine Ferraro's running for Vice President--or, for that matter, America's women winning the soccer World Cup--it is arguably more important than any of those milestones. If women have made great strides in gaining parity in politics and sports, it is in the workplace that sexism is most keenly felt. Women still earn 75% of men's salaries...
...first-act curtain fell last August, when Drabinsky was suspended from Livent, the Toronto-based company he had founded. There he had pioneered a new business model, creating a company that both owned theaters and developed the shows that filled them in New York City and across North America...
...their best (which, until the iMac, hasn't been all that often), Apple products dazzle by giving us what we didn't know we wanted but suddenly can't live without. This fall we'll learn whether America's been yearning for a blueberry laptop built of bulletproof polycarbonate plastic (to make it, Ive explains, "rugged, robust, structural") and co-molded rubber (to make it "compliant, yielding, human"). And a little foldout handle. And a sleep light that throbs like a heartbeat. And a sleek, round charger whose cord rolls up like...
...Annie Proulx's newest collection of strikingly uncommercial short stories, Close Range, has sold nearly 100,000 copies. Scribner, the book's publisher, would have considered half that number a success. And at Knopf, senior editor Anne Close says short-story collections such as Lorrie Moore's Birds of America have fared very well this year...
Ahmed will begin teaching in the spring after spending the fall semester on research projects. Her classes will likely focus on women in Islam, which is Ahmed's primary field and a topic of her most recent book, "A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey...