Word: barbarae
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Americans spent more than $1 trillion on Visa credit, debit and prepaid cards in 2004, a 19% jump over the year before. Visa USA CEO Carl Pascarella sat down with TIME's Barbara Kiviat to talk about the continued march to plastic...
...resultant interplay of individuals from diverse backgrounds foments class conflict among Cruikshank’s characters. Every word from the street-smart Somerville native Barbara Brouillard, a Boston Police Department detective, seethes with the disdain—and desire—for the life the MacInnesses lead. Meanwhile, the MacInnes family members’ stiff speech betrays their sheltered upbringing...
...Barbara Bodine, the executive director of the Middle Eastern Governance Project at the KSG, said that the protestors’ success in helping to bring about Karami’s resignation was a “terrific” development...
...Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London springs to mind, but, as Wynhausen acknowledges, this compelling inside account has a more recent precursor. In 1998, American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich set off for low-wage America, posing as a housewife newly returned to work and taking whatever unskilled jobs she could get for her best-seller, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. Inspired to try the same thing in Australia, Wynhausen took a year off work, invented a c.v. and started knocking on doors...
These sessions—two of which have been held already—are part of the undergraduate working group of the Women in Science and Engineering task force, which is chaired by Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences Barbara J. Grosz. The group is charged with devising proposals to confront challenges facing women in science at Harvard...