Word: majority
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...increasing number of companies are customizing courses for their employees in conjunction with major universities. The former Coopers & Lybrand in the newly named PricewaterhouseCoopers, for example, has offered three-day and five-day executive-education programs for its partners for about four years at both Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration and the Harvard Business School. "Companies want their employees to learn something new and specific that they couldn't do before," says Marie Eiter, director of executive education at Tuck. The school has been providing three programs a year for the former Coopers & Lybrand, with 40 professionals...
What a birthday bash for those 148 men and women in flag-red coats and 23 gleaming brass buttons who make up America's most historic ensemble! President John Adams started it all when he signed the law creating the Marine Corps in 1798, including "a drum major, a fife major, and 32 drums and fifes." From that day Presidents demanded that the band be on hand to grace their moments of triumph and tragedy. And the band got bigger and better. Recently 35 euphonium players auditioned for one position, and all of them were turned down. Only the best...
...listened to the press conference in Beijing say Clinton's polite, subtly worded protest about the loss of life at Tiananmen Square did not come across to ordinary Chinese. Even worse was Clinton?s centerpiece speech at Peking University, where the State Department interpreter had major difficulties, breaking off sentences to start new ones, leaving some key phrases untranslated. The result was disappointing. The Chinese host of the broadcast criticized the interpreter outright, and a Beijing official later observed to his daughter in the U.S. that Clinton came out sounding like a "stupid man who cannot finish a sentence...
...think I definitely could have used my name to get a major record deal and be heavily promoted and transformed into some kind of superstar but I didn't want to do that," says Lennon. "I definitely wasn't ready for it and that's not what I'm about. I wanted to do something more down to Earth...
...business leaders into action. "The consequences of the millennium bug, if not addressed, could simply be a rash of annoyances, like being unable to use a credit card at the supermarket," Clinton said. But the worst-case scenario? He added: "It could affect electric power, phone service, air travel, major governmental service." Not to mention Vice President Gore's presidential ambitions...