Word: ralph
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...Commission, historically sympathetic to management on such issues, that made it easier for shareholders to challenge companies on CEO compensation through the proxy system. Shareholders at 43 companies, including Chrysler, IBM and Eastman Kodak, have submitted proposals seeking to curb executive pay. Next year the number could double. Says Ralph Whitworth, president of the United Shareholders Association: "What we're witnessing is a full-scale rebellion against corporate greed run amuck...
Unfortunately, David Gutmann is less real as second lieutenant Ralph Clark, a self-righteous stick of a man who reforms and is made human by the play which he directs. Gutmann is not convincing as the man who used to kiss the portrait of his wife a thousand times before he went to bed, and declared: "I'm not a convict. I don't sin"--nor is he as the man who has an adulterous affair with a pretty convict...
With a few exceptions such as Ralph Ellison, writers white and Black have used jazz as formula for cheap "atmosphere." Morrison rises above his temptation. There is no explicit jazz anywhere in this novel, no over-romantic images of saxophones and speak-easies. Instead, jazz is transmuted into narrative voice--a voice that at times surges poetically, at times sounds like a newsreel, at times is all-knowing...
Brown has sounded tired and defeated on the campaign trial in recent weeks, and aides say he has not decided what to do next. He has talked on occasion about starting a permanent campaign for political reform like Ralph Nader's, but some wonder if Brown will want to labor politically when the media spotlight...
...supply is periodically replenished by write-in contests and the efforts of various adverstising agencies, although some are direct quotes from famous people (four from Benjamin Franklin, one each from Confucius, Thomas Edison and Ralph Waldo Emerson...