Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years I've noticed that McDonald's signs across America have their counters stuck at 99 BILLION SERVED. McDonald's, I figured, was waiting for just the right moment to spring a big 100 BILLION campaign on us based on the assumption that people who eat poultry nuggets are easily duped...
...Numbers feature [NOTEBOOK, Nov. 22], we incorrectly stated the revised height of Mount Everest. The correct figure is 29,035 ft. And since we got that figure wrong, the following number of how many Bill Bradleys it would take to top the new Everest was incorrect too. The right figure is 4,525. Also, we erred in our statement that 100 shares owned by the average hourly UPS worker would be worth $68,000 after trading on the first day the stock was available on the market. The correct value...
...giddily capitalist decades of leveraged buyouts, Web IPOs and rising tides that lifted the biggest ships. That may have changed last Tuesday, when masked youths started smashing windows in Seattle. In one red-hot CNN Minute, the eclectic concerns of a planetful of protesters--environmentalism, Tibet, child labor, human rights--crystallized right where most of them didn't want to be: beneath the anarchist banner...
When I heard last week that the National Labor Relations Board had ruled that medical students have the right to form unions, I thought of my own medical training and the night two years ago when a colleague nearly killed a patient...
...hospitals overwork their interns? Because they can. Why don't interns do something about it? Because for 23 years they were forbidden to organize. The NLRB ruled in 1976 that interns were not employees but students and had no right to bargain collectively. Last week's decision reverses that ruling. It covers some 90,000 residents working at privately owned hospitals across...