Word: job
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...nicest part of my job is to work for a President who every morning can look at criticisms but still knows for himself what has to be done and has a sense of timing for how to get things done," Sununu told the audience of about...
...matter how women minimize the impact of gender on their leadership, womanhood is a definitive factor on the job. As pathfinders, the appointees inevitably become role models. When Zeckhauser speaks before groups of employees, "what people resonate most to is what it's like to be a woman in this job, the fact that it is doable. I face a lot of the same problems other women do in jobs around the university as working women...
...right job, but the wrong time."--Farmer Arizona Gov. Brace Babbit's response when Hole Champion, the chair of the Kennedy School's search committee for a new director of the Institute of Politics, discussed the post with him, according to Babbit's secretary...
...London retailing executive, and a graduate of Cambridge University and Harvard Business School, Sorrell worked in posts ranging from sports promotion to food retailing before landing a job with the Saatchis in 1977. He spent eight years helping manage that firm's headlong growth, then left to build his own empire. Sorrell and a partner paid $676,000 for a controlling share in WPP in 1985, then used the company as an acquisition vehicle; they have bought 39 marketing and advertising firms so far. His most stunning triumph was the 1987 purchase of the JWT Group, an American conglomerate seven...
Getting large numbers of nations to agree on anything, especially delicate policy issues, is no easy job. But now that scientists have convinced policymakers that the earth's ozone layer is in grave danger, governments are moving with unusual speed and resolve. Meeting in Helsinki last week, representatives from 86 countries said they favored a total ban on certain chlorofluorocarbons, man-made chemicals believed to be destroying the ozone, / by the end of the century at the latest. That goes far beyond the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which called for a 50% cut in CFC manufacture...