Word: risen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...academic year, 85 percent of those who went through the recruiting process applied to at least one consulting firm. 54 percent applied to at least one investment bank, a figure which has probably risen to 60 percent this year, Cosentino says...
...result are now punishingly competitive. Adding to the U.S. advantage: Americans are far ahead of their European and Japanese counterparts in embracing computers and communications systems in homes and offices. With companies increasingly able to get more from their people and resources, corporate profits, and hence stock prices, have risen relentlessly...
...CROSS THE NATION, STUDENTS had already risen up on such campuses as Columbia, Berkeley, Northwestern and University of Michigan. On the afternoon of April 9, 1969, it was Harvard's turn. Filled with that '60s mixture of anger, rage and disillusionment--much of it prompted by the continued war in Vietnam--about 300 students seized University Hall, physically pushing some of the deans down stairways and out the doors. Before dawn, President Pusey unilaterally summoned the Cambridge police to force their way into the Hall and get the students out. Donned in helmets and equipped with nightsticks and tear...
...solution embraced by the likes of DuPont and BankAmerica is to grant CEO stock options that can be cashed only after the stock has risen a specified amount. That way a CEO doesn't make a killing unless the stock really zooms. An even better answer is to devise stock options that are indexed to the market or some peer group. They would remain worthless unless the stock outperforms its competitors. Some have suggested the CEOs be required to buy stock above the market price, but that incentive could hurt workers, since a time-honored method of making the stock...
...amount of soy milk consumed in Harvard dining halls has risen each year since it was introduced five years ago, according to Harvard Dining Services (HDS) Executive Chef Michael Miller...