Word: boarded
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This year is Redmond's second on the council, and she has served on the Committee for Undergraduate Education as well as the Election Commission. She also sits on the Black Students Association's executive board and has headed the council's task force on faculty diversity...
...when the bathroom scale measures what the feast has wrought. And AOL's new bottom line is a company swollen with millions of new customers, rivers of new revenue and essentially unlimited potential but also a tricky new business model that may prove difficult to take from the white board to the real world. The Netscape buyout has redrawn the online map, but a certain software concern based in Redmond, Wash., still looms menacingly on the horizon. The epic confrontation between Netscape and Microsoft is over, but the epic confrontation between Sun and Microsoft proceeds apace, and the epic confrontation...
...Morgan, a titan of the 19th century who helped set the stage for the 20th (see following article), acted in his day as a cross between today's Federal Reserve Board and the Goldman Sachs' mergers-and-acquisitions department, providing the money and acumen needed to launch the prototypes of modern industrial corporations. Under Morgan's leadership, this century began much as the 19th century ended, with heavy industry--steel, rails, electricity, and oil--ascendant. Automobiles were in short supply until 1913, when Henry Ford introduced the assembly line and mass production, making ours a consumer as well...
...honor economists here, preferring to include them in a subsequent issue devoted to scientists and thinkers. But surely our nation and the world would be less strong today, and many of our most famous business leaders would seem less prescient, absent the guidance of the Federal Reserve Board's Alan Greenspan. John Maynard Keynes, who convinced us of the value of fixed exchange rates and the need to use deficit financing to spend our way out of recessions, had tremendous influence over economic policy through the Depression and in the years after World War II. Although his name is back...
...asked to join the board of the Columbus Savings & Loan Society, a modest bank in North Beach, the Italian section of town. Giannini soon found himself at odds with the other directors, who had little interest in extending loans to hardworking immigrants. In those days banks existed mainly to serve businessmen and the wealthy. Giannini tried to convince the board that it would be immensely profitable to lend to the working class, which he knew to be credit worthy...