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Word: boardroom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like petitions, songs of conscience that come straight from the heart. This is a band with folkie inclinations and rock grit, and a graceful way with a cry of pain: Poison in the Well, an unfortunately timely tune about environmental pollution, ought to be piped in to the Exxon boardroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Jun. 19, 1989 | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...School students say they rarely enjoy such direct encouragement from McArthur. Faculty and students alike have acknowledged that external relations comprise a large portion of McArthur's responsibilities; and as a result, his realm is often the boardroom rather than the classroom...

Author: By Robert J. Weiner, | Title: Double Duty: Filling the Role of Dean and CEO | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...late 1970s and early 1980s is being replaced by the realization that racism is alive and seething in the hearts and minds of the American populace. This awakening comes from the stark realities of being Black in America. It comes from being called nigger in the classroom and the boardroom rather than just in railroad stations and at bus stops. It is the realization that a middle-class or upper-class or educated Black is still, in the eyes of white America, just Black. A Harvard degree does not take away your color...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of Black Greeks | 5/26/1989 | See Source »

Lizards in Love. The authors note that dinosaurs tend to fall hard when boardroom sparks inspire thoughts of bedroom larks. They step up their Nautilus routines and become sharper dressers. Soon, romantic reptiles are dreaming up urgent reasons to call the beloved at home. And no matter what they think, everyone else knows what is going on. Despite the pitfalls, the authors do not proscribe all office affairs. After all, they argue, some are the real thing. But they offer a few valuable tips on damage control. Example: Never transfer the beloved to your own department, unless you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I See, I Want, I Get - Maybe | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...farmers who've come out to meet Willey are neither heretics nor hayseeds but businessmen in a carpeted irrigation-district boardroom. They hem and haw in their own argot. They are worried, for instance, about load-flow relationships: if the government sets stringent new standards on selenium in their runoff, they may need to dilute it with the very water Willey is proposing to buy. Life is terribly uncertain. The regulatory agencies, they observe, "just agreed that water runs downhill about two months ago." The farmers also have this uneasy feeling that the environmentalists want them to save water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water Marketing A Deal That Might Save A Sierra | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

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