Word: danae
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protesters sang and held candles underneath the windows of Dana Palmer House, where members of Harvard Educators for Social Responsibility--the Ed School group that organized the vigil--said they believed some Corporation members were staying before today's meeting...
Employees at the Faculty Club and Dana Palmer House, however, said that no Corporation members were staying in those buildings...
...list includes Johnson & Johnson as well as Procter & Gamble in consumer goods; Digital Equipment, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Emerson Electric in high technology; Delta Air Lines and McDonald's in services; and Caterpillar, Dana and 3M in a catchall category called "general industrial." Those companies were singled out not only because of their solid financial performance over the long haul (20 years or more) but also because of other qualities, especially the ability to innovate. The excellent companies, say the authors, "fawn" on their customers and learn from them. The best managers value action above all else, a spirit...
...good thing too. Atlantic High will not displace Two Years Before the Mast or Moby Dick from even the most loyal conservative's bookshelf; Buckley's voyage is a piece of cake compared with those undertaken by Richard Henry Dana Jr. or Herman Melville. The storms encountered by the chartered 71-ft. ketch Sealestial are really industrial-strength squalls; the calms are overcome by the expedient of switching on the engine. It is Buckley's crew-as fine a collection of overachievers as ever spliced the main brace-who make the trip a sentimental journey...
...Essendine (Scott) is a middle-aging matinee idol whose warmest admirer is never more than a mirror away. Every big wheel has spokes, and Garry's entourage is loyal. His ex-wife (Elizabeth Hubbard) is a kind of high-fashion Candi da, and his primly efficient Girl Friday (Dana Ivey) is a slave driver's jewel. His manager (Richard Woods) and producer (Edward Conery) round out the protective cordon...