Word: bucked
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...financial statements. Yet while most of the jurors didn't find Sullivan very credible, it was even less plausible that Ebbers would not have detected accounting fraud on such a massive scale right under his nose. As the jury heard, this was a man so obsessed with saving a buck that he sniffed out $18,000 in cost overruns in a $3 billion budget, fretted about coffee-filter expenses and wanted the bottled-water machine filled with tap water. Penny pinching like that had made him a cult hero on Wall Street--and an improbable dupe to a jury...
Welch hoped the plan would get students to consume their alcoholic beverages in moderation. Students are limited to two cups of their drink of choice at a buck a cup. (Whether the plan has worked or not is unclear; Welch could not be reached for comment on Friday, probably due to an extra-long dinner...
...either blame the women and say they can’t cut it,” Buck Luce said, “or you can blame the model...
...hold onto their dreams, not only must women attain the necessary skills and experience, they must also have their achievements appropriately recognized,” wrote Buck Luce and study co-author Sylvia A. Hewlitt. “To the extent the latter is missing in female careers, ambition is undermined...
...Leaders have to recognize that the traditional male model that was put in place when it was all men in the workplace will not be the one that will fully utilize human talent,” Buck Luce said...