Word: chasings
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...members of Congress since the country’s founding, only 215 have been women. Today, women hold only 14 percent of the seats of U.S. Congress while they account for 52 percent of the population. It wasn’t until 1948 that a woman, Margaret Chase Smith, became elected to the Senate in her own right. And it would take 54 more years before a woman, Nancy Pelosi, would earn the top leadership position in a national party in the House of Representatives...
...were a British stage director looking for foreign material to adapt, you'd likely avoid anything in Japanese, a language whose subtleties have tormented translators for centuries. And you definitely wouldn't choose Haruki Murakami, whose witty, noirish best sellers about contemporary Japan (Norwegian Wood, A Wild Sheep Chase) combine the mundane and the surreal with daunting complexity...
BANK ON IT When Bank One merged with J.P. Morgan Chase in July, Jamie Dimon, right, of Bank One, was guaranteed the CEO slot of the new company--when Chase's William Harrison retires...
...studies, so he tells her he's spending late nights with his school's Scrabble club. But while doing an errand for a bad-seed player, he's caught with the cheater's steroids. Will he tell the truth or take the fall? Will Mom let him chase his diamond dream? Will he take Betty to the dance or stand her up for Veronica? O.K., I made up the last one, but boys in pop culture haven't had troubles this clean-cut (I mean, Scrabble club?) since before today's parents were teens. That's probably the point--parents...
Bank One and J.P. Morgan Chase. Now the pairings are trickling down the asset chain. In late August Citigroup said it was buying its way into retail banking in Texas by acquiring privately held First American Bank. Two days later, Canada's Toronto-Dominion Bank announced it would spend $3.8 billion for 51% of Banknorth Group, based in Portland, Maine, which is itself expanding southward by acquisition...