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...joint, are channeling their talents into the corporate world. As they rise in company ranks, these junior executives are presenting some unusual challenges to their bosses, who have had to accommodate new life-styles and non-negotiable demands for increased personal attention, intensive career planning, openness with information. Scratch any chief executive officer and he will say that compared with their older supervisors, managers aged 27 to 35 are not only more determined to enjoy their personal lives but also more socially aware, more in favor of affirmative action to hire women and minorities...
However, Bell said the committee is "starting from scratch" in planning work with the Cambridge Community Center...
...advance. One-week trips are the most popular, but budget-conscious vacationers can get away on a Miami-Bahamas run for as few as three days. Worldwide, there are somewhere around 75 cruise ships in service. Since a first-class liner costs at least $75 million to build from scratch, fleet owners customarily renovate aged vessels, packing them with tiny staterooms. The General W.P. Richardson, originally intended to carry troops, is now in its sixth incarnation as Eastern Steamship Lines' Emerald Seas...
...towns love their teams fiercely, each in its own style, and the teams, in turn, reflect in a measure the characters of their cities. Denver, wild and woolly jumping-off point for prospectors, outfitting depot for dreams. It mattered nothing that a man could scratch and sift his way through grubstake after grubstake without success. The lodes were somewhere out there in the Rockies for the patient and the tenacious. The fevered sport of searching for gold and silver is the original version of "Wait 'til next year...
...passionate competitor who eats poached eggs to soothe a nervous stomach and refers to hockey pucks as "black vitamins." A leg wound as an RCAF bombardier in World War II cut him off from playing, but at 56, he is legendary in hockey for building championship teams practically from scratch. He was doing just that for Union when he quit, and he did it twice before-first at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and then for Cornell. After his Cornell team won all 29 of its games, including the national college championships in 1970, Harkness moved on to coach the Detroit...