Word: metropolitanism
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...culture of the new owners. "You don't quite know their values, where they're coming from or what they really have in mind for you," says Walter Scott, who served as a director of Pillsbury and later ^ as U.S. managing director of its acquirer, Britain's Grand Metropolitan. "There are lots of inducements to start working on your resume." Scott is now a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management...
...Metropolitan Museum of Art mounts the first U.S. exhibition of work by a Spanish genius who was "as radical as reality itself...
...plan which turns management of one of the most impoverished school districts in the metropolitan area over to Boston University (B.U.) continues to draw fire from community members nearly one month after its initial implementation...
Organizers of the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Volunteer Project, just into its second year of operation, said they are working to educate New Yorkers about opportunities for public service, and running their own programs in the metropolitan area...
...dream of becoming a latter-day Citizen Hearst seems emblazoned upon the American entrepreneurial psyche. Over the past half-century, dozens of metropolitan papers have shut down and few have been salvaged. None have been launched successfully since New York's Newsday in 1940. Yet would-be publishers keep emerging; the example of others' failures seems only to add to the imagined glory...