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...credit reporting company TransUnion, and sits on the Harvard Board of Overseers. Forbes magazine ranked Pritzker number 89 on its 2005 list of 100 most powerful women.But what Pritzker prizes most are not these responsibilities, but her philanthropic efforts and relationship with her family, according to college friend Carl J. Martignetti ’81.“I have always been amazed by how she makes time for all aspects of her life,” he says. “She has achieved a real balance.”The prominence of the Pritzker name began in Chicago...
...soon landed a spot on the three-member CEA and yet another historical tag as the first woman to join the Council.Convinced of the veracity of The Washington Post’s Watergate coverage, Whitman eventually left the Council.But 20 years later, Leonard Downie, who supervised Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, would be the groom’s father at her daughter’s wedding.ALL BUSINESS ABOUT FAMILYAfter she became a coveted commodity with corporate boards, Whitman says she told her recruiters: “Let’s not kid ourselves, I know...
...intellectually unfair to blame the act of a lunatic on a political party, whatever his family ties to the Vlaams Belang," says Carl Devos, a political scientist at the University of Ghent. "But the VB is responsible for creating an atmosphere and popularizing the theme of racial tension." He worries that such racially-charged crimes are eroding tolerance in a country that can't exist without it. "It's not like we're living in Beirut," he says. "But we are losing control...
...meantime, SawStop, which is available only as a commercial saw, will offer a less expensive version for hobbyists later this year. That may push more small shops to conclude, as Carl Seymour's did, that a safer saw isn't just good for workers; it's good for business. Gerald Wheeler, owner of Cabinet Door Shop, says two earlier power-saw accidents cost him $100,000 and two good employees, who suffered amputations. Seymour says he fixed himself up with "half a roll of toilet paper and a Band-Aid," leaving work that day with all his fingers, plus...
...that happen to Swanson and his collection of folksy phrasings and spot-on aphorisms, which was first published in 2004 and given out free to Raytheon employees before it found a wide and enthusiastic audience that included Warren Buffett and Jack Welch? Credit goes to Carl Durrenberger, a San Diego engineer, who was packing up his cubicle at Hewlett-Packard to move to another division when he came across a copy of a 1944 chestnut given him by a former boss: The Unwritten Laws of Engineering by W.J. King...