Word: firming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...care benefits. Labor unions are also playing a role in these struggles. In any given month in cities around the country, seminars, workshops and conventions assemble to discuss these same concerns. "This is not the organized women's movement," says Hillary Clinton, a partner in a Little Rock law firm and wife of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton. "It is not top down. It is bottom up." The emphasis is on practical solutions, not rhetoric. Men are often included, and the tone is less confrontational. "Who wants to walk around with clenched fists all the time?" Clinton asks...
Already there are numerous signs that male attitudes and values are becoming "feminized," though most men might reject that description. In a survey conducted last summer for the recruiting firm Robert Half International, 56% of men polled said they would give up as much as a quarter of their salary to have more family or personal time. About 45% said they would probably refuse a promotion that involved sacrificing hours with their family...
Jack Atchison. In 1986 and 1987 Atchison was a managing partner of Arthur Young & Co., the accounting firm that audited Lincoln. Under Atchison's direction, the thrift got a clean bill of health. Later Atchison took a $930,000-a-year job as a vice president with Lincoln's parent company, American Continental Corp. Like his boss, Atchison took the Fifth before the committee several weeks...
...Keating to transfer $800 million in Lincoln's assets to high- risk investments. A month later he resigned from the government to become head of a Keating-controlled enterprise, TCS Financial Inc. Immediately Keating poured nearly $3 million into the business, wiping out the debt of the financially ailing firm. A friend of then FHLBB head Edwin Gray, who became his bitter enemy, Taggart wrote to Don Regan in 1986, calling Gray a "re- regulator" who was having a "very adverse impact on the ability of our party to raise needed campaign funds...
...Club attorney Casimir De Rham '46, who is with the Boston firm of Palmer and Dodge, could not be reached for comment. De Rham has refused to speak with the press about the case since Schkolnick filed her complaint in December...