Word: see
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they all bet against my doing it." In addition to exasperated editors, she was confronted by battalions of advertising and research "pros." She recalls them as gnomish little men who denigrated an audience of older women and told her that old "broads" and "gals" didn't want to see pictures of themselves. They smugly reiterated the Madison Avenue maxim: Youth is beauty. "The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality," explains Lear, who despite the tumult plowed ahead and chose to remain a solo financial player to ensure her control of the enterprise. Kevin Buckley...
...aren't part of the decision- making process." Such changes in attitude may already be under way at Price Waterhouse. Referring to the embarrassing publicity generated by this case, Kathryn Oberly, an attorney for Price Waterhouse, observes, "You couldn't have a better teaching example than to see the name of your firm in the newspaper for the past few years." Still, the firm has a way to go when it comes to women in top jobs. Even after the prolonged litigation, only 28 of Price Waterhouse's 900 current partners are women...
Because of where they live, most Europeans see more clearly than most Americans how implausible and irrelevant that danger is becoming. All they have to do is look at their neighbors on the other side of the Iron Curtain to realize that there is indeed such a thing as Finlandization, but it is happening in the East, not the West. Moreover, it is happening with the approval of Moscow, which is encouraging its comrades to turn toward Paris, Bonn, London and Rome not just for economic help but also for political institutions and values...
...Yankees, boycott the cattle calls. "Every kid is looking for a moment or hoping for a word, but no one ever even glances up," Mattingly says. "It's depressing." However, many of the modern stars -- Jose Canseco ($15), Roger Clemens ($9) and Will Clark ($8) among them -- seem to see the same lobby kids at every hotel, and have come to look at all children as Fagin's agents in the burgeoning curios and collectibles racket...
...slow cleanup of the Alaska oil spill, collecting cut-up Exxon credit cards and advocating a company boycott. More such crusades may be in the offing. Williams, of Boston's WRKO-AM, has invited his fellow talk hosts to a convention in June. The aim, he says, is to "see what we have in common and see if we can get together on some issues...