Word: plushly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Seven-thirty that Saturday evening and the entire class, bathed, brushed, shined, combed, and shivering, hurries through the dark night and biting wind across the campus to Prospect Street, where the grounds of 16 plush clubhouses--and the not-so-plush Prospect Cooperative Club--stretch before them. The luckiest ones have received several bids and join one of the big five...
While Air France and British Airways are abandoning first class in Europe, Swissair has turned the plush service into a big moneymaker. Unlike most European carriers, Swissair is owned primarily by private investors rather than by the government. It is also one of the most consistently profitable international airlines (1980 earnings: $23 million). Swissair's strategy is to pamper its passengers, especially business travelers, who make up an astonishing two-thirds of its customers within Europe. First-class flyers, for example, sink into seats covered in brown leather instead of common cloth, and they can listen to music over...
Harvard's 222 junior faculty members are caught in a revolving door. As they spin through their research and teaching duties, they catch brief glimpses of the tight academic job market outside and of the plush life inside the University's tenured faculty. Eventually, a few will come in, but most must get out--quietly or angrily, by choice or by force. Sometimes a tenured faculty members leaves as well. Following are reports about several former junior and senior faculty members who have moved on, including three who were denied promotion or tenure last year...
...possibility of racial violence on campus than with its reality in Boston. No one at Harvard is swinging flagpoles at us yet, but the list of Black victims of race-related violence in the metropolitan community is growing steadily. We will get nothing significant done until we leave the plush Science Center and go down to Black neighborhoods to work with--and stand by--the residents. Some Harvard Black students have done these things; but their efforts have largely been done their own; there has been little leadership from the BSA. Where were our so-called campus Black leaders...
...Wednesday night, February 4, and McCreery has scheduled an "icebreaker" to precede Thursday and Friday's interviews. The young, second-year B-School's plush Hamilton lounge promptly at 5 p.m. to exchange social amenities with the men and women who will be valuating them for the next two days. Next to the hors d'oeuvres and cocktails are reprints of an August, 1980, New York Times Magazine article: "Inside Exxon: Managing an $85 Billion-a-Year Empire." The men are a sea of blue and gray pinstripes; the women wrapped in tastefully muted tailored skirts and jackets with...