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USAGE The phrase was coined to mock the economic inequality that some say started with Ronald Reagan's "trickle down" theory. But this is, at best, an imprecise analogy, because money isn't flowing from poor people's pockets straight to the rich: the pie is getting bigger for everyone. From 2000 to 2005, pretax income for the bottom half grew 15.5%. The rich just got a larger cut of overall growth (a 19% gain for the richest 1%). Perhaps better, then, to call it the big-slice theory...
...Business Conference, which took place Oct.13th. But forget the shirt’s hue (color-gender association is so over). It’s the words on the t-shirt that are most memorable: “CEO’s look better in heels.” The phrase is accompanied by a graphic of slender legs (presumably female) in a pair of pumps...
...would argue that the members of WIB are not well intentioned in their efforts. The phrase in question, perverse as it is, was likely meant to encourage Harvard women to aim for great career heights. To be sure, undergraduate women at Harvard are capable of becoming CEOs (and a number of them do). The image of high heels, however, is hardly an appropriate symbol of that professional aspiration...
...common problem. You book a trip, fail to pick up a phrase book and before you know it you're shaking hands, toasting - or wildly gesticulating - in your destination, wishing you had mastered just a couple of phrases of the local language. Since 2005, travelers on selected flights of Singapore Airlines, Lufthansa and half a dozen other carriers have been avoiding this problem with Berlitz World Traveler courses, available on personal video screens. Now other airlines are following suit - this year, Continental, KLM and Air France began offering the onboard language-tuition program, which teaches the basics...
...hear from a man who will let them know that, despite the title on their business cards, they are functioning at less than full throttle, distracted by needless anxiety and basically missing the boat on their voyage through life. He's a man who adds new meaning to the phrase business guru: 80-year-old Swami Parthasarathy...