Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Ross Johnson, flamboyant head of RJR Nabisco, lost his bid for control of the giant food and tobacco company in a $25 billion leveraged-buyout brawl last year, he also lost his job. Last week RJR's new owner, the buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, announced its surprise choice for Johnson's replacement: Louis Gerstner, 47, marketing maven and president of American Express...
Garcia's erratic economics have cost him his once overwhelming popularity. A + February poll by Apoyo, Peru's leading independent polling firm, charted his approval rating at a dismal 13%. Last December Garcia's support within his own APRA (Popular American Revolutionary Alliance) Party eroded to the point where he was forced to resign as its leader. Nevertheless, the President, whose five-year term expires in 1990, has stubbornly ignored calls for him to step down...
...chance at the top jobs. Despite the new outpouring of corporate benefits for working parents, professional women justifiably suspect that some bosses now categorize their female employees into two classes: mothers and achievers. "The idea is really offensive," declares Maryellen Cattani, a partner in a San Francisco law firm, whose Volvo carries her daughter's child seat in the back and a car phone in the front...
...wanted to move up, just because she had a family. That's the Stone Age." Another California giant, the Chevron oil company, offers flexible work schedules for working mothers but does not shift them to a slow career lane. Says Dave Hufford, manager of employment policies for the firm: "We all have to balance our personal lives with our career demands, but to try to put that on a track system wouldn't be easy or realistic...
...emphasis on fundraising has also resulted in the school's speedy but disorganized academic growth. While the school has successfully attracted big-name politicos like Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis, it has acquired an increasingly negative reputation for producing technocrats who lack a firm grounding in governmental theory...