Word: marathons
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...harassment. Employees can choose among eight "resource councils"--groups representing gays, women and Native Americans, among others. The company sets aside a specific share of purchases each year for minority-owned firms (what conservatives like the Coorses usually call--gulp--quotas). And the brewer has sponsored everything from a marathon gay dance party in Miami to "the first corporate mammography program in the country," as the company gushes...
...also courted Congress enough for Newt Gingrich to push through a $1.8 billion increase in the intelligence budget this year, bringing it to $29 billion. Tenet avoids the media and refuses to talk about his Middle East foray. But in an exclusive interview with TIME after the Wye marathon, he maintained that the CIA "can have an enormous impact on the future, but the fact is that we have to become a more agile institution...
After the tidal wave of books with advice for working mothers a few years ago, it was only a matter of time before the male version emerged. Marathon Dad: Setting a Pace That Works for Working Fathers by John Evans (Avon) leads the charge with advice directed at the father who wants to take part in parenting without giving up his career. Evans, a psychotherapist, sees Marathon Man as the natural partner of Super Mom: "another breathless man trying to juggle the demands of a full-time career and hands-on, involved parenting in a two-working-parent home...
WASHINGTON: How's he doin'? President Clinton spent the weekend raising millions of campaign dollars and riding high on a couple of hot-button issues -- the murder of Matthew Shepard and the marathon Mideast peace talks in Maryland. The former is to the '98 election what black church burnings were in 1996 -- the kind of hate crime that Clinton can really get his teeth into; a battle he doesn't have to fudge. The latter, even his opponents agree, has given the President some much-needed stature. Indeed, they're both such winners that Clinton is doing his best...
While it is impressive to stand among eight marathon runners, the runners themselves were quick to note members of marathon teams run five mile stints--then pass a baton off to a waiting team member for the next...