Word: norton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most notorious confusion of all surrounded a Core course called Literature and Arts B-16, "Abstraction in Modern Art." Like a horde of wildcatters racing to the site of a gusher, some 600 students (roughly a tenth of the undergraduate population) descended upon the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall, hoping for a spot in the survey course...
...Vegas, gambling during the summer high season produced $446.5 million in revenues; this was 24% more than in the previous summer and only slightly less than the $455 million raked in by Vegas casinos during that period. Moreover, the gap has continued to narrow this autumn. Says Steven Norton, executive vice president for Resorts International, which operates the oldest, largest and most successful casino in the city: "By 1984, gambling revenues in New Jersey will surpass those in Las Vegas." During October, he notes, Atlantic City's revenues jumped a startling 39% over those of the previous year...
Many chief executives of major corporations agreed with that view. "The President is going to have to make more trade-offs," says David Mahoney, chairman of Norton Simon. "Both parties need to ignore extremes and concentrate on getting the economy rolling again." Asserted John Nevin, chairman of Firestone Tire & Rubber: "There will be a more pragmatic attitude toward intolerable budget deficits...
...three years that she headed the EEOC. Norton reduced the commission's huge back log of cases and helped improve its settlement rate from 14 to 52 percent...
...Norton, who has written for publications such as Ms. Dessent and The Nation, has been a vocal supporter of affirmative action programs to end job discrimination against women and minorities...