Word: dismalness
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...through the middle ranks of management to the top jobs. A Korn/Ferry survey last year of all FORTUNE 1,000 companies found that of the top five jobs below CEO at each firm, only 3% are held by women, up from 1% a decade ago. The record is so dismal that earlier this year, Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole launched an investigation into bias in the corporate suite...
Farrakhan's raging and Jackson's sidestepping send the dismal message that Blacks in the ghetto need not take responsibility for their actions because the history of white oppression some-how excuses crime and moral decadence. In short, empowerment means ranting and revolting--but not reforming...
...conversation, peppered with biting witticisms, focused on the future of Massachusetts (dismal, they said) and on their own job prospects (not great). Many said they will probably stay in politics, despite their current disillusionment. Some swear they will move out of state if Democratic candidate John R. Silber is elected governor...
...tray down a school cafeteria line remembers them well: the lunch ladies. They may be warmhearted, but their food is not always so hot. The Roy Rogers hamburger chain thought it would be a good idea to conjure up that memory with commercials featuring lunch ladies who dish up dismal casseroles to the tune of See You in September. The ads remind students to take advantage of their free time to snack on the company's fast food...
...criminality. U.S. officials say that Taylor is just about as bad as Doe, and Johnson is no savior either. "If we had nudged Doe earlier and harder toward an open society and a free market, it might have made a difference," says an official, but as he surveys the dismal prospects, he sums them up in three words: "A bloody mess...