Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attention to the noise, Carleton (Carly) Fiorina was saying last week, as she was crashing through the highest of glass ceilings to become the CEO of computer maker Hewlett-Packard. Although her appointment has not been so ballyhooed as Sandra Day O'Connor's becoming the first woman Supreme Court Justice or Geraldine Ferraro's running for Vice President--or, for that matter, America's women winning the soccer World Cup--it is arguably more important than any of those milestones. If women have made great strides in gaining parity in politics and sports, it is in the workplace that...
...second act has been a deluge of litigation. Following his ouster, Drabinsky was sued in Canada by Livent's new managers, including Furman and Hollywood honcho Michael Ovitz, who had taken control of the company in June. Then came a criminal indictment in U.S. federal court and fraud charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that Drabinsky fiddled with the books to disguise Livent's precarious financial condition. He's been accused of hiding expenses, of misleading auditors and devising a kickback scheme that funneled more than $5 million to him and his longtime partner Myron Gottlieb...
...into what else he's doing in his downtime. Earlier this month, he entered, and won, a contest in the Washington Post's Dr. Gridlock column by figuring out that a license plate reading 1 DIV 0 referred to an Infiniti. He's sure to clean up during Supreme Court Justice Week on Jeopardy...
Ingalls' second work, An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry, published in 1968, contained his own translation and commentary on verses collected by the Buddhist abbot Vidyakara...
...nation?s affairs. But on Thursday, Lewinsky, and the whole national ordeal associated with her, resurfaced briefly in a long-in-arriving windup order from the judge who presided over the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright followed up her historic April contempt of court ruling against President Clinton with a monetary sanction against him: $90,686 for having provided false testimony under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in the Jones lawsuit. The money ? minus $1,202, which will go to the court to reimburse its own costs ? will be split between Jones...