Word: number
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wang announces that she is ready to get going. We pack up in about three minutes and are on our way to the airport. She has apparently had a number of travel mishaps during her short time as a business analyst, one of which left her no option but the very undergraduate Greyhound bus. As she steps out of the cab, there is no doubt that the bus is fresh in her mind...
...back to the same Web research he did this morning. I wander around the office to see what the other analysts do. I spend time with one employee who specializes in writing fairness opinions--reports outlining for shareholders whether they're getting a fair deal in a merger. The number crunching and boilerplate legal writing seem dull, but it's still a high-wire act--shareholders who feel cheated can sue Broadview. "It's a pretty amazing responsibility for someone my age," the analyst says...
...expectations aren't nearly as high for the men. Though the team is unlikely to contend for the indoor Heptagonal title, the Crimson has a number of athletes who have a great chance of winning individual titles. Overall, the team appears to be capable of improving upon last year's injury-plagued sixth place finish...
...report also found that the number of women scientists working at each stage of a scientific career decreases as women ascend the academic ladder, saying that the "the pipeline of qualified women...is drying up in graduate school...
...most obvious sign of the inequalities that remain is the large discrepancy between the number of tenured men and women in the natural sciences...