Word: directorships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these tunes of unfriendly takeover attempts and vexing shareholder suits, the corporate board room is no longer the snug, overstuffed haven it used to be. Still, a directorship remains a sure sign of having made it in the business world. Few women have broken through the well-guarded boardroom door: only 276 women sit on boards of the nation's biggest 1,300 corporations. They tend to be concentrated in packaged-goods and other consumer-related companies...
...directorship was a "wonderful watching and listening post," Glimp said...
...some sour notes in recent years. A deep financial crisis?now successfully surmounted?threatened at one point to close the house. Performances have often been slipshod lately, the casting haphazard. Rudel, although tireless, has been away from the house more and more on conducting engagements; he has accepted the directorship of the Buffalo Philharmonic beginning next fall...
Kelly cited recent attacks on FBI informants, and the reduction of domestic security cases from 100,000 cases under J. Edgar Hoover's directorship to a present 200 cases as other examples of the FBI's weekend investigative powers...
Under his directorship, the Student Affairs Office has promoted humanitarian attitudes and respect for people, Poussaint said, "We've tried to be the backbone of student counseling and support systems," he added. Among the faculty, he said he "created a more colleague-type at "created a more colleague-type atmosphere toward students...