Word: rite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) test, since 1974 a rite of passage for first-years, would be phased out under the CRC's plan, its primary-colored study books deemed "too brief an exposure for our undergraduates, given the clear need for greater fluency in quantitative matters," in the working paper...
...CalPERS and others are getting drunk with power--as did brash dealmakers in the power seats of the '80s. Consider this year's losers list, announced last week. Sure, it has some real dogs, such as struggling Apple Computers Inc. and Stride Rite, a worn-out shoe company. But CalPERS also stepped on sneaker company Reebok. This is odd, given that Reebok's stock has doubled in 10 months and beaten the market averages handily in the past year. That's not all: Reebok shares have risen an average annual 29% since the bull market began in October 1990--outdistancing...
...hazing far more vicious than the customary single punch. Bernard Trainor, a retired Marine lieutenant general who lectures on national security at Harvard, has fond memories of the day he received his punch 32 years ago in Vietnam. "I never questioned it," he says. "It was part of the rite of passage." The senior jumper in his unit made a little speech, then handed out the wings. "I was the first guy in line, and he pinned it on my uniform and gave me the punch. The thing would go into your chest, break the skin, draw blood, but every...
...move is another in a growing series of consolidations as traditional, large-scale drugstore companies try to combat fierce price and product competition from supermarket and mail-order pharmacies. Revco, which has more stores but smaller revenues than CVS, had planned a similar deal last spring with competitor Rite Aid, but the Federal Trade Commission blocked the acquisition over antitrust concerns. The FTC has not yet approved the CVS-Revco deal, but antitrust worries have already arisen over the 275 stores that the chains run in overlapping markets. If the deal receives an official go-ahead, the resulting drug store...
Currently, of PBHA's 1,700 volunteers, only the 56 participants in the organization's Stride Rite leadership development program are paid...