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Instead of carefully considering Malcom's charges--and the possibility that they might have certain truth--the Times took up a crusade to discredit her and her work completely. The response from the highest echelon of American Journalism was to scoff at the charges as so ridiculous that they did not deserve a substantive answer. How unfortunate...
...middle. On one end, we've worked to create a viable pool of candidates who are qualified now to take over a managerial or front-office position. On the other end, we're bringing younger minorities and women who are not advanced in their careers into lower-echelon positions within a sports organization. The idea is to get them into the loop, learning the business and moving up through the system and into the comfort zone of those who do the hiring. The individuals who tend to be hired are usually those known to the people in authority...
...could not eradicate the intifadeh because "it expresses the struggle of nationalism." But however much the generals yearn for a political settlement, they prefer to use every weapon available to fight the uprising without legal and political constraints. The army's job, Shomron added, is "to enable the political echelon to negotiate from a position of strength...
Such clients appreciate small shops because the advertisers can command the faithful attention of the agencies' top talent. Doing business with a small firm typically entitles the client to deal with the boss, while at a mega- agency the upper echelon usually concentrates on major accounts like IBM (budget: $138 million). But the greatest lure is the little shops' reputation for creativity. In last June's annual Clio Awards ceremony, the industry's equivalent of Oscar night, Fallon McElligott of Minneapolis ($142 million) won twelve prizes. The most honored Madison Avenue contender, BBDO Worldwide ($3.7 billion), won seven. Among...
...arriving in Florida from Honduras was packed with 8,052 lbs. of cocaine. A few days later the Honduran military attache in Colombia, Colonel William Said Speer, was linked to traffickers when Cartel Member Ochoa was arrested while driving Said's $80,000 sports car in Colombia. "The upper echelon of our military has been corrupted," charges a Honduran official...