Word: crows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authors did not rank their 100 best companies, but they did choose a Top Ten. In alphabetical order, they are Bell Laboratories, Trammell Crow, Delta Air Lines, Goldman Sachs, Hallmark Cards, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Northwestern Mutual Life, Pitney Bowes and Time...
...examinations for those over 35, dental insurance, adoption assistance (up to $1,000) and two country clubs that employees can join for $5 a year. Hewlett-Packard provides free coffee and doughnuts twice a day and sometimes throws informal beer busts in the afternoon during working hours. At Trammell Crow, the real estate developer, partners own a stake in the properties they manage. As a result, some 5% of the company's employees are worth more than a million dollars...
...Jackson knows, the ultimate victory over the problems begins in the will and morale and imagination of blacks. The residue of the slave mentality still eats at that morale, still drips acids on the selfesteem. The external arrangements of things (Jim Crow and all the rest) seeped many generations ago into the heart and left there an annihilating anger and, sometimes, a self-loathing. Blackness has found it difficult to esteem itself in the imperiously white contexts of things. Besides, some of the arrangements designed to help poor blacks have simply replicated the patterns of the plantation...
Silkwood draws its power from its low-hayed approach to the story, the cast and crow rents the temptation to fabricate ridiculously tragic scenes of blatant corruption, Silkwood is no Chinn Syndrome, where Jane Fonda played an aggressive reporter investigating a neat melt-down at a nuclear reactor. Rather this film goes behind the scenes of life at a nuclear plant and subtly probes the intricacies concerning the operation and life of its employees. This film has no glamour, nor does it gloss over related event; the scene in which Silkwood's home is decontaminated for radiation poisoning is horrifying...
Investigators soon moved in; among them were Malcolm Bird, an editor of Scientific American, and Philosopher William James. "If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black," James declared, "you must not seek to show that no crows are: it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white...