Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women at IBM, where Boyle (who was married last month) was a marketing manager and Kirkman a data-processing marketing representative. While at IBM, Boyle accepted equal-employment assignments at other companies on a freelance basis; Kirkman left the company to devise an affirmative-action program for the American Express Co. They set up Boyle/Kirkman Associates in Manhattan in 1972, with Boyle as president and Kirkman as vice president. One of a handful of management consulting firms that advise top companies on ways to eliminate practices that discriminate against women, Boyle/Kirkman has worked with such clients as CBS, Pillsbury...
...Some 28% express a keen interest in politics and follow politics closely. Far fewer (13%) actively participate on a day-to-day basis in influencing the country's political and legislative process in one way or another...
Among the first to experience and express the new mood are the 40 or so members of the permanent White House press corps. "It feels like someone threw open the window of the White House to let in light and air," says Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News. "Ford is not the insecure man that Nixon was. He has never been traumatized by the press, and he doesn't treat the press as an enemy." Says NBC's Tom Brokaw: "It's like New Year...
...devious man, a trickster, but he may become more inaccessible." Says John Osborne of the New Republic: "I'm waiting and seeing." But one journalist has high expectations. Says Pierre Salinger, press secretary to President Kennedy and now a roving editor for France's L'Express: "The intent is there. The competence is there. I think the thing is off to a helluva start...
...post made Ford a national figure with a handy pulpit to express his views. He joined the late Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen in "The Ev and Jerry Show," a weekly televised press conference that was intended as a G.O.P. rebuttal to the Great Society. True to character, Ford was content to play straight man to Dirksen's grandiloquent grandstanding...