Word: generale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roots of this problem--like Harvard's difficulties hiring women at the same high levels--lay in the demographics of academia in general and Harvard's tenured faculty in particular...
Fears about editorial integrity have been Topic A at the Times since 1997, when Mark Willes, 58, the former General Mills cereal executive, became publisher and vowed to take a "bazooka" to the wall dividing "church" and "state"--the editorial operations and the business side. While journalists quaked, business types argued that it was a needed dose of cold realism for a paper whose profits had dropped and daily circulation had slipped from a peak of 1.24 million in 1991 to 1.1 million. Since Willes gave up the publisher's job to become chairman of Times Mirror Co. earlier this...
...three babies to each adult. It's also wise to choose caregivers who will give you loads of information about your child's day. Some day-care centers have parents fill out a chart on their baby's status in the morning (how he has slept and eaten, his general mood, etc.). A caregiver then fills out the back of the chart in the afternoon. She should tell you, for instance, that your baby sometimes falls apart when he sees you not because he's angry at having been abandoned, but simply because he's tired...
...like convenience-store robberies. And accidental deaths on the job are down as fewer Americans are employed in such dangerous occupations as mining and heavy manufacturing. Says Guy Toscano, a program manager for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: "Being at work is safer than being out in the general population...
HIGH YIELD, HIGH GROUND The mutual-fund group Pax World has opened the first widely available High Yield Fund that invests only in socially responsible companies. That excludes firms that profit from firearms or tobacco. Although junk-bond funds in general have had a tough year, white-hat investing is gaining fans. Nationwide, dollars going into all socially responsible funds have risen 82% since 1997, to $2 trillion...