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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that of the movie. A few weeks ago I was headed to the Kennedy School library to do reading. Lost in my own thoughts, I heard a man's voice scream, "nice ass!" The comment brought me up short. It seemed too vulgar--it was broad daylight on a main thoroughfare. (Also, being at Harvard has made me rusty. Such a thing is commonplace in New York, but Harvard men are almost outrageously tame and generally keep ribaldry to a tolerable level.) I couldn't imagine who would say such a thing or who might be on the receiving...
...main criterion is that we have established a close personal relationship with the NGO and have been in contact with someone who would be managing the internship," Gray says...
Just last week Republican leaders in Congress, acknowledging the changes sweeping Main Street and Wall Street, proposed a way to end Depression-era barriers that formally separate banks, investment firms and insurers. Already, though, hard chargers like McColl are overrunning the crumbling regulatory barricades. "Hugh McColl is the General Patton of the consolidation process," says Michael Ancell, a banking analyst with the Edward Jones investment firm...
...only has the sneezing started early, but it's likely to last longer than usual. The two main brakes on high pollen counts are extreme cold and scorching heat, both of which seem to be remote possibilities this year. Even last week's cold snap did not kill enough tree buds in the East to have much effect, although snowstorms may have done the trick in the Midwest. Nor is Texas expected to experience its usual blast-furnace summer, which in most years can be counted on to burn away enough pollen-producing plants to give the state a break...
Naturally, we were proud to receive this honor. But, being journalists, we were also curious about how Adweek measures heat. We learned from Eric Garland, Adweek's editorial director, that the main criteria are hard performance numbers: ad-page and revenue gains in the magazine's competitive category, and circulation gains. The advertising gains, as tracked by the Publishers Information Bureau, were collected for the past three years, with the greatest weight given...