Word: onwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of them will never see stock-option millions. Some can't sustain the grueling hours. Still others won't stay at the company for the four years it takes the typical options package to vest--i.e., for the shares to become sellable. "The options are what lead people onward," says Patrick Neeman, director of development at the website Buyingedge.com "But these people waiting for the big IPO are just waiting forever. The only people who get wealthy are VPs and above." And here's another reality check: for every 10 companies that offer employees options packages, only one ever...
Finally, after weeks of effort, the studying, double-checking and vetting in Washington and Europe were finished. Air Force weapons technicians in Missouri loaded the ill-aimed, satellite-guided bombs into the belly of the radar-eluding Stealth bomber. From that point onward, for the first time in the whole process, U.S. technology--and its human masters--worked flawlessly...
Overseas Albanian fund raising, on a much smaller scale, has been going on since the early part of the decade, when Milosevic began cracking down on the province. From 1991 onward Bukoshi's "government" was collecting a tax of 3% from most of the estimated 600,000 Kosovar Albanians who worked in Western Europe, especially Germany and Switzerland. (Patriotic Kosovars were encouraged to set up standing orders with their banks to pay the tax every month...
...year, most Harvard students (perhaps including myself) are moving onward and upward, working hard on papers and problem sets, gaining leadership in campus organizations and keeping their eyes on the future. But for me, this summer will be about the present. It will be a time for me to live in the moment at Harvard--a luxury that I often don't have during term time. I won't have to worry about the next assignment, the next Crimson deadline, or the next SAA event. I'll have the autonomy to do things I've always wanted to do, from...
...this weekend's Reed Trophy women's sailing event at the Dartmouth course, a difference of one point sent one team packing and the other team onward to the national championship...