Word: betterment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trained to ensure that race and sex aren't part of the decision- making process." Such changes in attitude may already be under way at Price Waterhouse. Referring to the embarrassing publicity generated by this case, Kathryn Oberly, an attorney for Price Waterhouse, observes, "You couldn't have a better teaching example than to see the name of your firm in the newspaper for the past few years." Still, the firm has a way to go when it comes to women in top jobs. Even after the prolonged litigation, only 28 of Price Waterhouse's 900 current partners are women...
...funny cigarettes in the VCR, dropping his gold watch in the Disposall. And now, she notes, "there's a giant blow-dryer in my pool." Well, a UFO actually, with three horny, color-coordinated aliens (Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans) itching to spend the night. Valerie had better listen to her cute boss Candy (Julie Brown): "Sit down. Relax. Have a mental margarita...
...would be a better story if he had signed "Henry Diefendorfer," but the truth is he wrote "Hank Aaron." Too bad. Diefendorfers are going through the roof...
...efforts to retain power when the last Vietnamese soldiers depart by Sept. 30 is the cooperation of Cambodia's former head of state, the wily and mercurial Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 67, who remains a powerful psychological symbol of better times. Last week, after the leaders held two days of talks in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, Sihanouk indicated for the first time that he was prepared to return home as head of state without his partner in opposition, the Khmer Rouge. But the former monarch laid on a host of ifs and buts to his offer that leave his return...
...strikers' high-tech gear, the pain is real enough. In better times the miners never worked on a Sunday (most are serious churchgoers; many are preachers). They earned more than $600 a week, had free medical benefits, seemed content with their simple lives in the savage hills and mountains of old Appalachia. For 14 months they worked without a contract while negotiating a new pact with the Pittston Coal Group, which operates some 40 mines in the region...