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...years ahead, more and more employees are going to demand the opportunity to give their families at least as much attention as their careers. If they are not satisfied, they may just look for work elsewhere. Says Bank of America's Beck: "Corporations are going to have to do more to get good skilled people and to keep them. To do that, we will have to start looking at the whole person, and work on strengthening our understanding of the employee-family relationship...
...team had to walk (she pronounced the unfamiliar word with distaste) to practice. Biondi said, trying to sound as if he believed it, that Evans owes her success to her "little skinny muscles," which are too small, he was sure, to store painful quantities of fatigue-producing lactic acid. "Look at this," said the 6-ft. 7-in. Biondi, sticking one huge arm under a reporter's nose. "I get all filled up with the stuff, and it hurts...
...superb group of netsuke (the carved and ornamented toggles that make up a whole category of miniature sculpture in traditional Japan) given to the museum by the San Francisco collector and scholar Raymond Bushell and his wife Frances. The walls are pleats of white translucent plastic made to look like shoji, or paper screens, which filter daylight to the galleries...
Although Terkel maintains an air of bemused objectivity during these exchanges, there is no mystery about the location of his sympathies. The book's title is taken from the plaint of a black journalist: "If you don't have any hope and all you look forward to is producing more and more generations of welfare kids, you're definitely worse off. That is the big gap, the Great Divide...
...First Salute is an Old World look at the New. There are no re-enactments of Paul Revere's ride, no echoes of the shot heard round the world. Instead, the critical naval battle in Chesapeake Bay and Washington's victory (with essential French aid) over Cornwallis at Yorktown are presented in the context of political decisions and misjudgments made thousands of miles across the Atlantic. Young America produced an unusual number of intelligent and bold leaders, but, to Tuchman, the success of its war of independence rested largely on the outcome of European struggles for colonies and commerce...