Word: felted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President's choice as ambassador to England. An ambassadorship to Turkey was dangled, but Mayer chose to oversee his studio's triumphant transition from silence to sound: "Garbo Talks!" The Mayers did claim the privilege of being Hoover's first guests at the White House. From then on L.B. felt free to phone the President, and frequently did, to make suggestions for running the government...
...record-breaking hits: The Big Parade, Ben Hur, Anna Christie, Grand Hotel, Mutiny on the Bounty and The Wizard of Oz. Thalberg was increasingly resistant to playing Andy to Mayer's Judge Hardy. By 1936, Mayer was the highest-salaried executive in America, breaking the million-dollar barrier. Thalberg felt entitled to an equal share. For his part, L.B. had begun to resent the prevailing opinion that Thalberg was the genius behind MGM's achievements, and Mayer the engineer who kept the plant humming...
...insistence on the upbeat also possibly served as an anodyne for the bitterness he felt when an ugly 1941 labor dispute ended his dream of managing his studio on a communitarian basis with himself as its benign patriarch...
Happily, small business is an aspect of the economy in which women do wield power. In the U.S. nearly as many people work for women-owned businesses as are employed by FORTUNE 500 companies worldwide. Small businesses are often founded by women who have left corporations because they felt that the glass ceiling was impeding their progress...
...corner offices--has made the world we knew unrecognizable. Clearly, with 86% of all FORTUNE 500 companies having at least one woman board member (right now it is only one, but this too shall pass), the impact of women's changing focus and fortune is being felt at the very top of the corporate hierarchy...