Word: firm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about the other things in life. Pretty soon the first semester comes around, and it's time to prove oneself by making the extra effort to get ahead. Next comes sophomore year, and now things start to count more. In the recruiting race, a job with the most prestigious firm promises the most valuable experience and most sought-after MBA. Once in a firm, career advancement is the prized apple and extra effort once again is the way to achieve it. And if you do become the CEO, that only means even more pressure to excel...
Amidst heavy speculation from the media that his retirement was just another clever political maneuver, Paxon has stood firm in his decision to leave office. After a Buffalo reporter questioned whether there was some ulterior motive behind his retirement, Paxon quickly responded that he was done having to justify his life, which earned him a hearty round of applause from the assembled crowd...
...leads their country. Arab governments also worry about their own biggest internal threat: religious fundamentalists who despise the U.S. and the regimes, like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, that have military links with the Great Satan. The states of the gulf are not strong and brave nations with firm bases; they are traditional monarchies struggling to survive in changing, threatening times...
...people" has lately just incited a group of big-game-hunting shareholders, who want to see the Digest company restructured or sold. "This is a company that has been asleep," says Nell Minow, a principal of Lens, an activist Washington-based money manager with a substantial stake in the firm. "We are trying to bring them into the 20th century before we get to the 21st...
Last April, four months before he resigned, CEO James Schadt unveiled a $400 million revitalization plan to push the company out of its morass and move it forward. But his approach, which upended the firm's age-old philosophy of dedicated product testing prior to direct-mail pitches, was roundly criticized by Wall Street as lacking coherence. In the week the plan was presented, the stock dropped 21%. Schadt's strategy was further hampered by the departure of more than two dozen senior executives...