Word: joining
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Raised in Darien, Conn., Croll earned an engineering degree from Cornell University in 1970 and a Harvard M.B.A. in 1973. His first job was with the Bank of Boston, but he left after three years to join TA, where he felt he could "have an impact." Now Croll, who is married with one child, works ten- and twelve-hour days and spends one of every four weeks on the road, a pace that he calls "deliberate." A fervent advocate of free enterprise, Croll believes that "most of the job creation in this country is coming from small growth companies. That...
...industrial city of Gorky. Bonner, for her part, tirelessly shuttled 250 miles to bring Sakharov food parcels, then returned to Moscow with his latest thoughts for Western journalists, who are barred from Gorky. In 1984 she was convicted of slandering the Soviet system and forced to join her husband in exile...
Moscow bowed last week to pressure from the U.S. to help reunite 38 divided families. At an international conference on human rights in Bern, Soviet delegates informed their American counterparts that 117 Soviet citizens who have relatives in the U.S. would be permitted to join them. In addition, Boris Gulko, a former national chess champion who applied seven years ago to emigrate to Israel, finally received permission and flew to Vienna. Such gestures may temporarily deflect criticism of the way the Soviet Union treats dissenters. But nothing would accomplish that goal so effectively as giving Sakharov and his wife...
...comparative hype and hugeness of Hands, it worked largely through the many small decisions to join in. The tingle of an unbroken cross- continental touch may have been missed, but along the way there was much to find touching. Following the plan of Organizer Ken Kragen, who had also headed the USA for Africa campaign, the line began and ended with homeless people. In New York City's Battery Park was Amy Sherwood, 6, who until last month had been living with her mother and two sisters in a Manhattan welfare hotel. Little Amy also came to symbolize opportunity...
...French refer to as cohabitation, Mitterrand has taken the lead in foreign policy while the newly appointed conservative Premier Jacques Chirac has had the greatest influence on domestic matters. The dynamic Chirac wasted no time in launching a sweeping reform of the French economy, which has been slow to join the current recovery in Western Europe...