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...comments, but with their competitive attitudes.“Academically I definitely feel that any Tulane student could stay here and hold their own,” says Joshua Miller, “but, for me personally, it’s way too serious….Tulane has a friendlier atmosphere.”Ordoyne, too, says that Harvard is “not harder, but more competitive.”“There’s a sense of always trying to one-up the person next to you…more so than I thought there would...
...Wendt testified that the offer of $110 a share by Pennzoil's Liedtke was "hostile" and said the board had rejected it on Jan. 2. Miller argued that Getty's board had felt trapped by Pennzoil's offer and sought out a so-called white knight to be a friendlier merger partner...
...judge last week closed the book on a long-gone era in which flirting with airline passengers came perilously close to being considered a stewardess's duty. During the 1960s, United Airlines, like its competitors, preferred young, single women as flight attendants, reasoning that they made the skies, well, friendlier. In 1970 a class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 1,720 women who had been forced to quit United when they married. Last week U.S. District Judge James Moran approved a $37 million settlement in the marathon case...
...raised in East Germany, would become Germany's first female Chancellor. She has said her immediate focus would be domestic issues, particularly the economy. (She supports loosening job-protection laws, overhauling pensions and curbing the power of trade unions.) But on international affairs, she is likely to be somewhat friendlier to Washington. While Merkel has criticized the stridency of Schrder's Iraq-war opposition, a spokesman for her party said that like the current government, the Christian Democrats would not support sending German troops to Iraq. -By Andrew Purvis
...first time was when apartheid was still dominant. The second time was when apartheid was on the verge of collapse. I have also visited the country on vacation and was there just last Christmas. I have seen enormous changes for the better over the years. Nowadays people are much friendlier and more willing to communicate. South Africans of all colors mingle in restaurants and movie houses and on buses and trains. Black kids dress and behave like any other youngsters. If children go to school and grow up together regardless of race, they will be able to stay friends...