Word: inked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Corporations, however, have a host of signs to separate the wheat from the chaff among those climbing the corporate ladder. Bank of America employees, for example, know that they have made it when they are given stationery with the bank's logo in gold rather than black ink. One of the most elaborate status classifications is at Ford, where employees are graded on a scale of 1 (clerks and secretaries) to 27 (chairman of the board). Grade 9, the lowest level of executive, carries the right to an outside parking place, while Grade 13 brings a larger office, windows...
...former newsmen (Heiskell began as a science editor at LIFE and Shepley served as Washington bureau chief for TIME). The new top executives emphasized, however, that they would retain Time Inc.'s commitment to quality publishing. "I'm not a journalist, but I've got ink in my veins too," says Munro. "It's the magazine group that makes this company different." While publisher of TIME, Davidson worked closely with the editors in the magazine's development...
Surprisingly, the increases come after a year in which the Postal Service had its first black ink since 1945, a surplus of $470 million at the end of last September. But, Bolger explained, the Postal Service already faces a projected $593 million deficit for the current year because of rising fuel prices and cost of living adjustments in employee salaries...
...time officials were sent to all newspaper offices as soon as the papers came off the press. Those stories the government found subversive were painted over with black ink...
...desk and produces some xeroxed sheets emblazoned "Improving Capability to Mobilize Military Manpower: A Report by the Director of the Selective Service." "It's only a rough copy," she warns me. For each of the 28 pages of the report, some bureaucrat has pulled out his black Carter's ink pad and, top and bottom, boldly stamped the word "DRAFT...