Word: inces
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...invasion of Viet Nam by China reminds me of the things Vice Premier Teng said in his interview with Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan: "China is quite poor." Apparently, nations are never too poor to wage war and destroy. What a folly...
Once corporations have a woman director, says Janet Jones-Parker, an executive recruiter who is chairman of Management Woman, Inc., "there is a certain comfort level of 'Well, we have our woman now.' " Indeed, one of the chief executives at the breakfast was heard to wonder aloud: "I don't know why I was invited. We already have a woman on our board." Another problem for women is that most of them do not yet have jobs as senior as those of the men who get on boards. Says Rosalie Wolf: "Much of the job market...
...late 1976, Somoza's image in this country had so deteriorated that he hired the New York public relations firm of Norman, Lawrence, Patterson, and Farrell, Inc. to shore it up. And although the State Department cited the Nicaraguan government for several human rights violations in the early days of President Carter's May 1977 crusade, 12 million dollars in economic aid in 1977 and 1978 were nevertheless added to a total of more than $300 million that Nicaragua has received from the U.S. government since the second World War. The reason was that some of Somoza's powerful friends...
...many federal mortgage lending institutions that will keep housing from falling through the floor. Besides, businessmen have cautiously avoided the excesses that in the past have led to precipitate tumbles. Inventories in warehouses and on store shelves are lean, although Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., notes that the Iranian crisis and fear of an oil crunch have lately moved some businessmen to stock up in fear of more general shortages...
Besides, the cross-country skier does not have to contend with the oneupmanship in skiing ability and ski attire often prevalent at downhill resorts. "The guy who skis downhill is in a controlled atmosphere," notes Bob Wilcox of Eastern Mountain Sports Inc. in Boston. "He's onstage, he spends money on clothes, he's into a relatively short period of high energy. The cross-country skier is just the opposite. He's relaxed, he sets his own pace. Skiing cross-country is the winter counterpart to jogging." Increasingly, though, cars heading into the mountains carry both downhill...