Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What do women want? For years, the top brass at Sears, Roebuck and Co. had nary a clue. Store managers saw nothing amiss in displaying intimate apparel from the same rack fixtures that were used to sell paints. "Sears frustrated and disappointed our customers over a long period of time," says chairman and CEO Arthur Martinez, who arrived in 1992 from Saks Fifth Avenue, where he had been vice chairman, with prayerful instructions to save the Big Store. "If we didn't act quickly, the end game was a slow death for the company...
...best aspects of The Crimson's opinion page. Especially with regard to endorsements, the prominence of dissenting views has helped to focus the campaign on the issues. This year the staff endorsed Elizabeth A. Haynes '98, but dissenters, including some of the top Crimson brass, presented views in support of two other candidates. Last year, various members of the staff wrote in favor of four different presidential candidates...
...they were denied promotion opportunities because of their race. The corporation, which had previously been fighting the suit tooth and nail, offered the $176.1 million settlement only after a former Texaco executive disclosed a tape-recording he had made of a 1994 board meeting. On the recording, top Texaco brass discuss destroying evidence of hiring discrimination while using racially insulting language...
...hold sacred: the chain of command. It has also teased out an alarming number of similar allegations at other bases around the country. But hoping to avoid a repeat of Tailhook--in which no one was ever convicted after scores of women were assaulted by Navy aviators--the Army brass is moving quickly in this case to demonstrate "zero tolerance" and assure the public that they will do all they can to root out further wrongdoing throughout the armed forces...
...case of Texaco is only anomalous because the statements and actions of its racist top brass are now public knowledge. As journalist Ellis Cose proved in The Rage of a Privileged Class, black employees throughout corporate America often must struggle against subtle glass ceilings as well as outright racial hostility. The solution to this dilemma may well be more--not less--affirmative action. Without explicit and enforced preference programs, black advancement may be stifled at token levels...