Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corporation to finally get serious about their statements over the last decade that they care about the South African question, and work--through stockholder resolutions and other tactics--to get those companies directly supporting the South African government to pull out from the country, and to push companies which do not directly propagate apartheid to adopt the Sullivan Principles as a bare minimum...
Already intense, the pressures of mergermaking are becoming even tighter. More investment banks are switching from private partnerships to public ownership. The latest is Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, which is due to be bought by Shearson/American Express. With shareholders to satisfy and profits publicly reported, investment banks must push harder to show earnings increases every quarter...
...grounding." In 1954 she married a fellow actor and would-be producer, Steve Parker. She was 20, he 32. They moved from New York to Los Angeles-a city that Parker detests to this day-and the marriage had troubles almost from the start. "Shirley had this drive, this push," Parker recalls. "She didn't want to be surrounded by a white picket fence. I would be wanting to putter around in the kitchen, and she wanted to be at the studio." Says MacLaine: "Steve was very supportive, but he just didn't want to be known...
...that Jackson is ill-versed in the delicate art of building interracial coalitions. Jackson has never held an elected office. Whereas mayors like Young and Bradley needed to court white votes to win elections, Jackson has opted for confrontation, forging all-black protest blocs to demand concessions. At Operation PUSH, he organized boycotts of white businesses in order to win more contracts and jobs for minorities. In the process he was able to wring concessions from such companies as Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Another group under the PUSH umbrella is proving to be a political liability...
...high pay is that it provides incentives for climbing the corporate ladder. Employees need to be rewarded for struggling up through the hierarchy. Companies as large as GM or Exxon have some 20 levels of management, and the side effect of creating salary differentials among those levels is to push executives at the top into very high compensation brackets...