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Newark-based Prudential's endeavor, which could have a wide-ranging impact on affirmative-action programs in many industries, followed a five-year Labor Department investigation of the company's hiring practices. Prudential, wary of a potential Government suit and mindful of its $50 million worth of business with federal agencies and their employees, agreed to the compromise settlement...
Rauch, who calls the Kronauer endeavor his most eye-opening experience ever, agrees that "there was something about the scope of the vision involved that's so big, bigger than me, bigger than all of us, bigger than anything I've ever done." The concept controlling the production the idea of a "magic forest" of criss-crossing stories as an image for the whole world--"scares me now when I listen to conversations in crowds...
...animosity of most American Jews long before the 1984 presidential campaign. Moreover, despite Hirschorn's presumptuous opinions, the American Jewish community is not, and never will be, so all-important that bad relations with it can nullify the positive aspects of a political campaign or any other endeavor...
Designer boutiques are the most direct line the designer can set up to the public. There is,probably no other creative endeavor that reaches its audience in such a piecemeal, erratic and subjective way as fashion. A kind of half-frenzied, operational friendliness animates buying sessions, covering-but not consistently concealing-certain inevitable animosities. The buyers think they are being pushed too hard to spend too much. The designers keep a little distance, knowing, at least, that any buyer is capable of the kind of catty commercial aside that was overheard in Miyake's Paris salesroom: "All my Issey...
...everlasting regret, the USSR initially provided assistance to its fledgling ally in this endeavor. However, Khrushchev reneged on a promise to provide China a "sample" A-bomb, according to Beijing which made this charge when presenting its account of the Sino-Soviet schism. Nevertheless, in April 1964, within 15 years of its establishment, the PRC successfully detonated an atomic device...