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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sackings, though legal in Hong Kong, are the first time Cathay has bypassed its usual disciplinary and dismissal procedures, which feature a hearing and give the employee the right to appeal. "Essentially we lost confidence in them," says Lisa Wong, a Cathay spokesperson. "We reviewed their individual employment histories and looked carefully at their overall standards of conduct and employment attitudes." But she added: "There was no doubt of their flying abilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer of Discontent | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

Scotty’s does have a sketchy element. (As my boyfriend said, “go figure...sketchiness at a truck stop.”) Men brag about how many wheels are on their trucks to my best friend Lisa and me—the youngest employees there, and to some minds that equates to us being fresh meat. Every day, she’s offered a place in a truck on its way to Canada, and I’m offered some guy’s phone number or a trip to his house—sometimes jokingly...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, | Title: POSTCARD FROM WILTON, N.Y.: The Overnight Shift | 7/20/2001 | See Source »

...Lisa Lazarus, a rising senior who served last year on Princeton’s presidential search committee and was once a student in Gutmann’s classroom, said that Gutmann’s talent for teaching may be one of her greatest assets as she takes over the position of Princeton’s chief academic officer...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Princeton President Names Provost | 7/13/2001 | See Source »

...would Julia Roberts believe in regret? For the gods have not only blessed her with a $20 million smile, they've been smiling on her ever since 1985, when she graduated from high school in Smyrna, Ga., and headed to New York City to be with her big sister Lisa. "The whole point of me moving was to reunite with her," says Roberts. Acting was an afterthought--"something that I could attempt to do in New York"--but fate saw her coming. On the count of three--Mystic Pizza, Steel Magnolias, Pretty Woman--Roberts was a star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movie Star: Julia Roberts | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...Overseers replace outgoing Overseers John C. Baldwin ’71, Peter C. B. Bynoe ’72, Jack R. Harrison ’55, Lisa Henson ’82 and outgoing Board President Sharon E. Gagnon...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alumni Elect Five to Board of Overseers | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

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