Word: partnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women who were associates were in the tough position of having superiors who were all male. Though a hard thing to measure, it did seem that the women were less frequently seen engaging in personal conversations with partners than the male employees were. It would be ridiculous to say that members of the opposite sex cannot communicate, but it seemed that the majority of partner-based communication, depending on the person, centered around golf, family or going out with the boys--subjects none of the young female associates I worked with felt particularly close...
...These indictments may have little or nothing to do withWhitewater," saysTIME's James Carneyof the 48-page indictment that charges Bill Clinton's former business partner James McDougal, his wife Susan, and Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker with bank fraud and numerous other crimes. "Webster Hubbell was indicted, and it was shown that the Clintons had nothing to do with his crime. It is not clear that this involves the Clintons at all," says Carney. " Still, it certainly isn't good news for the Clintons...
...spent several months trolling for Kennedys, hoping to extract a little ladylike blackmail. But the Kennedy season is just about over; most of the clan has moved on to Hyannis. When the big storm blows substandard roofs off half of Dade County's ranchettes, Edie and her business partner branch out into insurance fraud. Soon the lizards are frisking: sleazy developers, mendacious salesmen, crooked building inspectors, clueless and boorish tourists. These sorry folk are what is called the fabric of society. Hiaasen's good guys are far out on the fabric's fringe: a decent chap who collects human skulls...
...House Whitewater panel played a tape of a conversation in whicha lawyer with the Resolution Trust Corp. seemed to suggest that a staffer alter her report on Madison Guaranty, the failed savings and loan owned by the Clintons' former business partner, for political purposes. Reason: the lawyer said doing so would please RTC head Jack Ryan and other senior officials. "There are answers they would be happier about, you know, because it would get them, you know, off the hook, you know, and that would be about Whitewater." Ratan says: "What the Republicans are trying to show is that where...
...President and Mrs. Clinton's passive role in the land development scheme. As one Democratic panel member after another angrily protested the proceedings today, three federal regulators charged that top government officials repeatedly thwarted their attempts to investigate the failed savings and loan owned by the Clintons' Whitewater business partner. Resolution Trust Corp. investigator Jean Lewis said she believed "there was a concerted effort to obstruct, hamper and manipulate the results of our investigation."TIME's Suneel Ratannotes that despite "the televised pandemonium, the real impact of the hearings so far is in the thousands of documents Leach is dropping...