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Finding and promoting good female managers is one thing; keeping them is proving to be a tall order. Many of the most accomplished women get fed up with corporate life when they fail to advance into the upper echelons. Twenty years after women entered the professional ranks in significant numbers, very few have broken 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...
...Houston a stay-at-home dad kisses his pregnant wife goodbye as she heads for the office, and then turns back to the task of getting their four children fed, washed and ready for the day ahead. In Long Branch, N.J., parents work alternate shifts -- she during the day at a hospital accounting office; he at night, as a security guard -- so that their three kids won't be left with strangers. In Lincoln, Neb., a divorced mother of four -- one of the nation's 9.3 million single parents -- depends on her eldest daughter to fill in while...
...even clear that the package is ambitious enough to accomplish one of its main goals: encouraging the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates. With the threat of recession more and more apparent, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has indicated that he would ease credit once a plan was adopted. But financial experts expect no more than a quarter-point decline in interest rates, far less than the 1.5% drop the Administration has been hoping for. "This agreement will give the Fed a degree of maneuvering room, but not much," says Lyle Gramley, a former Fed governor...
...Richard and Stanley to do the heavy housework, forage for walnuts and , sell them door to door. Not allowed to use the toilet during the night, Richard surreptitiously relieved himself in jars. Beatings were common, and hunger constant. While Aunt Anne and her husband ate steak, the boys were fed rotting hard-boiled eggs...
Thus not only are the companies making money on jazz but the music is reaching a younger, far larger audience than ever before. At the same time, public interest in the music is being fed by the spread of jazz-education programs, the airing of jazz shows on PBS and some cable networks, and a spate of feature films glorifying the jazz mystique ('Round Midnight, Bird, Mo' Better Blues). As a result, people are beginning to get the message that jazz is not just another style of popular music but a major American cultural achievement and a heritage that must...