Word: firm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recruiter for Goldman Sachs, one of New York's top investment banks, warned students at the Career Forum last month that their chances were less than optimal: out of 6000 students who recently applied for full time positions at the firm, Goldman only accepted...
...course, companies aren't doing this because radicals have stormed the boardrooms. A shortage of workers is driving many of the changes. "We've not faced this sort of talent-critical, labor-critical problem...probably since wartime," says Don Hasbargen, a principal at Hewitt Associates, a consulting firm. When as many as 190,000 computer jobs go unfilled, for instance, companies can't afford to be seen as racist, sexist--or even antiunion...
Additionally, the fires healed, at least temporarily, a festering rift between town and company. Many townspeople are concerned that Vail Resorts, one of the largest U.S. ski operators, is seeking to singlehandedly control the area's economic life. The firm has expanded its real estate ventures and has branched into the kind of non-ski businesses that were traditionally run by ski-town locals, including retail shops and a controversial entertainment complex called Adventure Ridge. "It's drawing people away," as many as 1,200 a night, says Jonathan Staufer, owner of a local cookware store. But most such complaints...
...linchpin to all the subplots is Roger White II, 42, an impeccably dressed light-skinned black partner in the venerable Atlanta law firm of Wringer Fleasom & Tick. The nickname he picked up at Morehouse College, Roger Too White, reflected his disdain for all the campus talk about black separatism. But his old Morehouse friend and fraternity brother Wesley Dobbs Jordan is now the mayor of Atlanta. That connection explains why Roger is asked to represent Georgia Tech's All-American running back, Fareek ("the Cannon") Fannon...
...jumped in 1991 to McCaw Cellular, a $4.9 billion-debt laden Seattle firm that was trying to build a national cellular network. He was second in command to Craig McCaw when AT&T bought the company for $11.5 billion. Not ready to call it quits, Barksdale needed one last bite of the apple: he wanted to finally be top dog somewhere. That's why, when a headhunter called to see if he was interested in applying for a job as fourth man out at nearby Microsoft, he declined. And that's why, when Doerr called...