Word: kept
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...incidentally captured on tape come as a surprise. Affirmative action would ensure diversity--ethnic, gender and racial--in the upper ranks of organizations. Prejudice stems largely from ignorance, which we are often accustomed to think of as intellectual ignorance. But ignorance also means unfamiliarity. Since these executives had deliberately kept minorities out of the top ranks, they were not used to working with them on equal status. Texaco did have an official affirmative action policy; had it actually ensured that minorities were at the top as well, Texaco could not have instituted a glass ceiling. They would not have...
...They just kept firing shots, but Dion kept us in it," Iverson said. "We made them come down and play at our level...
...lost in South Dakota, where Larry Pressler fell to Representative Tim Johnson. Democrats held open seats in New Jersey, Rhode Island and Georgia and dashed G.O.P. hopes for further gains in Montana and Illinois. Gingrich, who on Election Day was privately predicting that he would pick up five seats, kept his balloons in the nets and his head down in a hotel in Atlanta long into the night as his margin slipped away hour by hour...
...instance, Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, kept a small zoo in his room consisting of lobsters, snakes and a huge tortoise...
...world--that it is neither responsive nor repentant. A heavily guarded Beijing court took just 10 minutes to reject the appeal of Wang Dan, the dissident sentenced to 11 years in prison for articles written in Hong Kong newspapers. As at Wang's secretive Oct. 30 trial, police kept foreign press away, confiscating tapes and briefly detaining a photographer. "I don't think they will relax on issues of democracy and human rights," sighs Hernandez. She predicts that relations with the tightly wrapped superpower-to-be will continue to require a Janus-like balance. "If we push China, they will...