Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like everyone else here, I left a substantial existence at home. I remember the familiarity with which I would walk across our high school parking lot after the final bell, shirt untucked and backpack carelessly flung on my shoulder. It was easy to be happy then, when I knew the ways of the old place and had adjusted accordingly. I could go through entire weeks without a serious worry, and that is pretty impressive, if you know how much I worry...
...have to disclose in unprecedented detail how much their top executives earn, as well as tell stockholders how those pay packages were determined. The rules are the latest effort in a movement by stockholder groups and politicians to curb excessive pay and perks. Shareholders at 43 corporations, including IBM, Bell Atlantic and Chrysler, challenged CEO compensation this year. And at least two pay-disclosure bills have been introduced in Congress...
...Bell alleged that the Law School adheres to a set of "arbitrary" hiring criteria that have "had a discriminatory impact on qualified women and minority candidates...
...Bell took an unpaid leave of absence from theLaw School in April 1990 to protest the absence ofminority women faculty members...
After the University declined last spring tomake an exception to its two-year leave policy,Bell forfeited his tenured position at Harvard. Heis now a professor at New York University Schoolof...