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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dirty joke or commenting on someone's appearance. Rather it is an abuse of power in which a worker who depends for her livelihood and professional survival on the goodwill of a superior is made to feel vulnerable. "This is not automatically a male-female issue," says Wendy Reid Crisp, the director of the National Association for Female Executives, the largest women's professional association in the country. "We define this issue as economic intimidation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Office Crimes | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...Crisp passes and heads-up hustle by Minkus, Uustal and Johnston left the Quakers' defense gasping...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: W. Booters Crush Quakers | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...Crimson puts on a display of crisp passing, sharp shooting, and strong defense, it could bode well for a successful year. The Ivy title is not out of reach...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: W. Booters Hope to Rebound Against Quakers | 10/5/1991 | See Source »

...pressure to keep the Crimson alive will fall on starting quartberack Mike Giardi, who put in a fine 12-24, 174-yd performance against Columbia last Saturday. With solid rushing and crisp passing, the scrambling Mather sophomore led the Crimson to 21 points in the first three quarters...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Gridders Must Overcome Cadets And Odds Today | 9/28/1991 | See Source »

...final passage (Woolf aptly calls it her "peroration") is out of character with the rest of the play. The crisp sarcasm and dry humor deteriorate into slightly forced melodrama and moralizing that have very little Virginia Woolf in them...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Wit and Tedium in Woolf's Room | 9/27/1991 | See Source »

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