Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What's a "fair share" of the American market...
Carter's basic goal is to devise a welfare plan that is fair and compassionate toward those who cannot support themselves, while encouraging those who can work to get jobs. From the start, Carter has said that he would give no aid to someone who could work but refused to when given a good chance...
...overture and this opening number are, to be fair, the nadir of the show. After this, despite the efforts of the orchestra, A Little Night Music has moments of muted sparkle which, sadly, remind us of what a good production might have been like. There are, for example, the performances of Robert Suttton as Henrik Egerman, Fredrik's tormented son, whose passion for the ministry cloaks his passion for his stepmother, and of Caroline Jones, who is genuinely sympathetic as the Countess Charlotte Malcolm. If Charlotte's husband Carl Magnus (Nick Littlefield) is somewhat wooden, his stiffness is forgivable...
...hurting, not helping, employees. The union insists the purpose of the boycott is to pressure the company to obey the law; it is necessary because no other tactic has succeeded. "It was the company that created the conditions of the boycott by making it impossible for us to get fair elections in the first place," says the union's secretary-treasurer...
...woman take after a man?" sang an exasperated Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. That tacit sentiment all too often pervades male-dominated executive suites, report Social Psychologists Margaret Hennig and Anne Jardim of Boston's Simmons College. In their new book, The Managerial Woman (Anchor-Doubleday; $7.95), based on in-depth interviews with 125 business-oriented women, they analyze why so few women have become top corporate executives. Their answer: most women never learned to play football or other team sports. For corporate men, whom the authors got to know as company consultants and teachers, life...