Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Force, a happy 50th, and some condolences. Empathize civilian-style along with Jimmy Stewart in 1966's Flight of the Phoenix. It's Lifeboat in the desert, or maybe a grim, post-war Gilligan's Island, with Stewart as an old-dog Skipper forced to yield to the "push-button world" and the ice-cold young German (the Professor?) who embodies it. You'll wince, maybe proudly, when Stewart tells us that "the little men with the slide rules and the computers are going to inherit the Earth." And then consider that this week, the whole thing could have been...
Recruiting women has been a hot button issue at HBS for years. Last year the percentage of women enrolled, 23 percent, was a historic low. The administration and the Women Students' Association launched an effort to improve the situation...
...distant Wednesday nights,when it was the turn of our press to sing, I would climb up on the pressman's platform, and for a moment or two my small perch became Olympus. I would riffle the paper in place on the feedboard and then punch the first power button to stir the dead weight of the steel and lead. The press would groan and move and finally plunge back and forth like a stallion in harness, air cylinders hissing and gasping as they cushioned each surge. I would stand a few seconds absorbing the rumble and relishing the power...
...knowledge, is actually "the exact opposite of living in fear." He describes a woman who was unjustifiably unnerved when he joined her in an elevator. "A man who gets into the elevator on another floor," he writes, "a man who gives her no undue attention, who presses the button for a floor other than the one she has selected...who stands a substantial distance from her, is not likely to hurt her without giving some signal." If she'd read his book, she would have been able to unclench. That is, until the next human appeared on the horizon...
WASHINGTON, D.C: While House and Senate Republicans struggle to get their two budgets to button in the middle, President Clinton is in the political catbird seat, safely above the fray and loving it. Tuesday, Clinton was offering political cover to legislators who support hiking Medicare premiums for wealthy seniors. "I would be happy to defend the vote of any member of Congress, Democrat or Republican, who votes for this," Clinton said. He also proposed that the Treasury Department collect the premium increases rather than the IRS, so that seniors don't get confused and think they're faced with...