Word: householder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Princess Masako has worked hard to adapt to the environment of the imperial household for the past 10 years, but ... she has completely exhausted herself in trying to do so." crown prince Naruhito of Japan, admitting that his wife, who has not been seen in public since early January, is having difficulties dealing with the constraints of royal life...
...businesspeople and investors, she's a household name. That might be because Carly Fiorina turns the wheel at one of the icons of the technology era, Hewlett-Packard. It might be because she's a compelling speaker and an imaginative marketer. It might be because she is one of only eight women leading a FORTUNE 500 company. But as the person who engineered the $19 billion merger with Compaq--and fought off a shareholder challenge--she was guaranteed star status...
...Dell as their competitors? But Fiorina led the company forward on many fronts, modernizing how HP did business, how it was organized and how it looked at the world. Now it's selling printers for $40, using nanotechnology to shrink devices and powering the core of the digital household. HP appears to have invention at its core again--and Carly Fiorina. --By MARJORIE SCARDINO, CEO of Pearson...
...minutes determine which fund managers are interested in the stock, and file a research note to them. Now she's reinvigorating a performance-driven culture, giving Fidelity some sizzle by encouraging managers to make bigger bets on their best ideas. That's how Peter Lynch turned Fidelity into a household name. Ned Johnson has been speaking for the firm during the fund scandals that erupted last fall; he'll take the heat if trouble reaches Fidelity's doors. But very soon, trouble or no, his daughter will be in control--and by all accounts she's ready. --By Daniel Kadlec
...circumstances surrounding the birth of a female infant in Kosciusko, Miss., on Jan. 29, 1954, were not promising. Present was the usual mix that had so often accumulated into a burden too heavy for a single-parent household like the one Oprah Winfrey grew up in. The state in which she was born had laws in place waiting to characterize her as unwelcome, to bar her participation in otherwise acceptable social activities, to shackle her to the residue of slavery and other injustices of the past. The simple truth is that her grandmother, her great-grandmother and all the great...