Word: board
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...increase: it voted a 10% raise bul split the payment in two−a 7% boost beginning next September and 3% in January. Illinois legislators voted themselves both a 25% raise this year (to $25,000) and a further 12% increase for next year. The commissioners on the board of Cook County, which includes Chicago, voted themselves a 30% raise, to $32,500. When the board's president vetoed the appropriation for the raise, one member took the matter to court, where it now awaits resolution...
Freshmen will receive their housing assignments today between 8 a.m. and noon, Thomas A. Dingman, member of the Board of Freshmen Advisers said last night...
Last week at a breakfast in Manhattan, ten members of the Financial Women's Association, a group of successful managers, introduced themselves as qualified candidates for board membership to the heads of 30 major corporations, including General Motors, Pfizer, Kennecott Copper, Uniroyal and Mobil. Said one of the aspirants, Paula Hughes, 47, a vice president and director of Thomson McKinnon Securities: "Being on a board is the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Women get on boards because they have already been on boards." Added another candidate, Ellen Berland Sachar, 37, a vice president and security analyst with Paine Webber...
...Management Woman, Inc., "there is a certain comfort level of 'Well, we have our woman now.' " Indeed, one of the chief executives at the breakfast was heard to wonder aloud: "I don't know why I was invited. We already have a woman on our board." Another problem for women is that most of them do not yet have jobs as senior as those of the men who get on boards. Says Rosalie Wolf: "Much of the job market was closed to us until ten years ago. We are still building the credentials that we need...
None of the F.W.A. women, as Ellen Sachar put it, was "so naive as to think if she sat next to [Mobil Chairman] Rawleigh Warner at breakfast, he would invite her on the Mobil board at lunch." But what these women are telling corporate executives is that it is no longer valid to contend that there are not many qualified women for boards...