Word: johnson
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While working on this project Johnson has remained active in public service. He is currently on the board of directors of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty and continues to advise PBHA...
...convenietly located in the basement of Harvard Hall at the west end of Harvard Yard, next to Johnson Gate...
...amazement that anyone so young could write a publishable novel seems slightly condescending, of a piece with the sentiment behind a chauvinistic remark of Samuel Johnson's: "A woman's preaching is like a dog walking on its hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." In fact, most of Necessary Madness is done very well indeed, at least within the restrictions of its genre. Crowell keeps her plot moving briskly along, and her narrator gets off some good lines. Looking back on her teenage fling with punk fashions, she notes...
...when many of his Boston Brahmin contemporaries are easing into retirement, 66-year-old Edward Crosby (Ned) Johnson 3rd, chairman of Fidelity Investments, the largest manager of mutual funds in the world, continues to move at warp speed. The year 1997 is the one in which he intends to rechannel the huge savings pools in Asia and Europe through the global stock market, duplicating overseas the mutual-fund juggernaut he has created in the U.S. His primary target: the $9 trillion of accumulated savings in Japan, where individual investors still squirrel away much of their earnings in savings accounts that...
...Johnson looks far beyond Tokyo to the rest of a rapidly prospering continent. Fidelity already manages pension assets in Australia, and began selling mutual funds in Taiwan in 1986 and in South Korea in 1995. From regional headquarters in Hong Kong, the company is studying the Malaysian and Philippine markets as well...