Word: copely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...angry shareholders by rising up against management in open revolts that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. While such boardroom activism is nothing new at smaller companies, where directors tend to hold large ownership stakes, it is now spreading to top FORTUNE 500 corporations that are struggling to cope with tough times. In their willingness to take on bloated corporations and entrenched management, directors have become oddly reminiscent of the takeover artists they so feared a few years ago. "Corporate boards are taking up where corporate raiders and hostile takeovers left off in the 1980s," says John Nash, president...
...composition. One such "practice" mission, code-named Clementine, has already been budgeted by the Defense Department in coordination with NASA. It will fly an instrument package past the approaching asteroid Geographos in 1994 to test the kind of sensors and navigational devices that someday may be needed to help cope with a real threat...
Tracy Sallows plays the naive young Ellie Dunn--the only person who has enough heart left to be broken at the time the play begins. She must discover that Shakespeare cannot help her cope with a shattered world--and yet, her growing disillusionment, as portrayed by Sallows, does not touch...
...mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or even understand; we are too small and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages. And now, you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only...
Some of Clinton's advisers are urging him to re-evaluate the health-care- reform package that he promised to unveil as one of his first major initiatives. To cope with the price inflation, Clinton must decide how he can reconcile his aim of expanding coverage while curbing costs. Any plan that could achieve both of those goals, however admirable, would require many Americans to pay more for care, give up benefits -- or both. "Any reform will create millions of winners and millions of losers. Health care is the most emotional and personal of all public policy issues," says John...