Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rules that minorities must comprise a certain proportion. Instead, affirmative action ensures that minorities actually reach the top and are able to make decisions for organizations. Although I wish that affirmative action was not needed, the Texaco Inc. settlement illustrates that organizations need minorities in the upper ranks. This idea is not only rational but also in the best interests of the country, since racial and ethnic minorities constitute a rising proportion of the U.S. population...
Employees at Texaco Inc. had noticed the glass ceiling for some time. But the idea only became accepted when tapes revealed that senior executives used race as a factor in determining promotions. In most cases, the existence of glass ceilings are very difficult to prove, and minority employees who brush up against the glass ceiling are not so lucky to have their fears confirmed by a tape...
...good idea, but it was not a good time to hold it," said Catherine D. Rucker '99, the sponsor of the Club Loker bill...
...since 1968. These alone might have been enough to guarantee his re-election. But it was Clinton's special fortune to face a Republican who served in World War II, a man who distrusted polls, television and just about everyone who worked on his campaign, a Washington insider whose idea of mixing with the voters was going on the Sunday talk shows, a deficit hawk who, with 90 days to go, decided to pose as a tax cutter, and a man who never learned George Bush's First Rule of Politics: If you have to attack a member...
After the State of the Union, Baer drew up a list of every idea mentioned in the speech, matching each one with a specific policy proposal and a media event to communicate it. The result was two months' worth of policies, often with two or three events a week. The campaign model, duplicated again and again, was a low-cost proposal to strengthen communities accompanied by a bully-pulpit road show featuring Good Neighbor Bill. Everything was coming up values. Morris began cherry-picking good new ideas throughout the Executive Branch, using his unmatched zeal to push them to fruition...