Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Women have become an important force in corporate America...I've seen this diverse environment encourage new and challenging thinking," she wrote...
...University Marshal introduced the recipients--Arrow, Harvard Professor Bernard Bailyn, Block, Professor Andrew F. Brimmer, statistician David R. Cox, Greenspan, Literary Theorist Julia Kristeva, and Author Mario Vargas Llosa. Rudenstine bestowed a witty epithet on each recipient--describing Greenspan as the man who "keeps America green"--before conferring the degrees...
...easygoing moniker of Mitch. In fact, more people were turned into refugees by Mother Nature in 1998 than by wars and other conflicts, according to the International Red Cross World Disasters Report 1999. The report says that violent weather episodes from China and India through the Philippines and Central America killed 20,000 people and impacted dramatically on the lives of some 250 million others...
...about this," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "The steel unions are very powerful, and they really want these quotas. Gore ?- and Hillary too ?- is counting on union support to win, and Clinton?s opposition is going to make them angry." It already has. The United Steelworkers of America arranged to have steelworkers descend on the Capitol today for a rally, reminding lawmakers (and law-vetoers) that global trade can affect votes. Will the Senate put West Virginia before world affairs, and pass the quota bill (it passed the House overwhelmingly in March)? Or will the Man of Steel...
...employees -- and for them, banding together could pose antitrust problems. "But doctors have many grievances," says TIME health reporter Janice Horowitz, and banding together may be the only way to address them. In this regard, notes Horowitz, doctors may be following in the footsteps not only of America?s working-class forebears, but also of some other professional groups, such as college professors, some of whom have also pursued the unionization route...