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Companies that are serious about moving women into the corner offices and keeping them there have to bend some old rules. Two firms based in the Washington area stand out for their willingness to do that. At Gannett, the media firm, 41% of the workers in the top four categories are women, as well as four of 15 members of the board of directors. At MCI, where 42% of the 20,400 employees are female, women hold 12% of the 350 top-management jobs, double the number three years ago. Both companies attribute their progress in part to the efforts...
...moment he handed back the program and pen to me the crowd began to press forward again, and I was shoved aside. In the commotion, I dropped the pen that I had been clutching in my right hand. I debated for an instant whether to bend down and pick it up, fearing that I would be crushed...
Observe the vast plains, still the source of the kind of strength that only space can give. The Main Streets, often puzzled and outraged by change, but -- so far -- willing to bend to it, without breaking. The campuses, dotted with ugly racist conflict but still great generators of knowledge and ideas. The countless individual entrepreneurs and the omnipresent civic groups, committees, associations...
Something in the Baton Rouge air must make politicians go partway round the bend. Before their latest session ended, the state legislators pressed every hot-button issue within reach. They not only passed the strictest anti- abortion law adopted by any state since Roe v. Wade but almost passed a measure to encourage the beating of flag burners by reducing the penalty to a $25 fine. Then they approved a law requiring record companies to place warning labels on songs that promote deviant sex, violence, drug abuse, suicide, devil worship or incest...
This concluding chapter in what has turned out to be the most delightful and conscientiously made series since Star Wars finds our intrepid explorers back in the Old West of 1885. Marty is trying to bend history around an inconvenient shooting in which it is preordained that Doc will die. Were that to happen, of course, everything that has already occurred in Future I and II would be rendered impossible. In a sense Marty is fighting not only for Doc but also for his own future, which now lies in our movie past...