Word: interrupter
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...greater numbers of women college graduates are filling higher-income professional and managerial jobs traditionally held by men, the study says. Another reason for the remaining wage difference is that men are still twice as likely as women to enter the most highly compensated fields. Moreover, women continue to interrupt employment more often than men (for childbearing, among other things), undermining seniority and availability for promotion. The report downplays an additional explanation for the male-female wage gap: outright sex discrimination...
...interrupt this magazine for an important political bulletin. The bellwether Cognoscenti Caucus is now over, and the results are pouring into Election Central. In a few moments we will find out the winner of the coveted "Big Mo" Award. But first, some background...
...incidence that is four times greater for blacks than for whites. If present trends continue, blacks and Hispanics might constitute as much as 40% of the predicted 54,000 AIDS deaths in 1991. Warns Dr. Wayne Greaves, chief of infectious diseases at Howard University Hospital: "Unless we can interrupt this pattern of transmission, this disease could potentially affect the size of the black population...
...memorial service in Washington would have pleased Malcolm Baldrige, who died four days earlier, crushed by a falling cow pony while roping a steer. In his eulogy, Ronald Reagan described the late Commerce Secretary as direct and unpretentious. He told of how Baldrige had ordered his staff to interrupt him for only two types of phone calls. "I was one," Reagan said, "and any cowboy who rang up was the other." In deference to Baldrige, Reagan decided not to begin the search for his successor until this week...
...other hand, Sullivan was startlingly contentious. He ferociously attacked Nields and Liman on procedural points and claimed they were not treating his client fairly. While accusing the panel of stalling, he proved himself a master of the same technique: whenever Liman seemed to have North cornered, Sullivan would interrupt the questioning with an objection or whispered advice for his client. Says a friend of Sullivan's: "He objects when he wants North to be able to think about his answer. He also tries to throw off the timing of the opposing counsel...