Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pepper, who is a Corporation board member and whose company has a $30 billion product line, including household and cleaning products, expressed enthusiasm in the idea, Patel told the Daily News...
...military's painful efforts to integrate women into its ranks. Yet unlike the recent Army sexual-harassment charges that seek to squash boorish and sometimes illegal behavior, this case will test just how far the Army can stretch the rules for women--and whether that's a good idea. Any ruling that forces the Army to show more flexibility to its new mothers could also bring changes in the way the military deploys them--changes that could be a setback for hard-won gains in the fight to make women full partners in military roles, including combat...
...idea to get money back from Switzerland's bankers, who bragged about their neutrality even while taking gold stolen, like Linder's ring, from the Jews, came to the California resident last July as he visited Austria on a lecture tour. In Vienna he read about how much looted Nazi wealth remained in Swiss banks and how others were trying to retrieve funds deposited for safekeeping there...
...industry, passengers may be forgiven if they see absolutely nothing here that resembles good news for them. Without a doubt, consumers benefited from the cheaper airfares that followed in the decade after deregulation. In a period of expanding capacity, letting the market set the fares is a great idea. But now the pendulum is swinging in the sellers' direction. The airlines' widely touted "price discipline," for example, translates roughly to a 27% increase in the average price of a ticket in the past two years...
...ever find him," says a prominent industry figure. "He has this pager number and he calls right back, but you never know where he is." Late last week his office said he was "traveling." Entertainment-industry analyst Hal Vogel also has no idea what Ovitz is doing. "It's amazing," he says. "The most powerful man in Hollywood has disappeared...