Word: signs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Council leaders said they hoped to have 3000 students sign the document which will then be presented to a high-profile faculty committee studying the recruitment of women and minority scholars and expected to release its findings in February...
...many on Capitol Hill were quick to praise the reappointment. "Clearly, this is a man who shares our views about the importance of education," said Senator Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat. Lamar Haynes of the National Education Association, a union representing 1.6 million schoolteachers, considered the selection a "hopeful sign that perhaps Mr. Bush will fulfill his campaign promise to become the 'education President...
...three huge, X- shaped desks, where 30 bond traders and other workers shout into telephones and scramble to execute the orders that he barks out or scrawls on yellow legal pads. On the computer terminal next to his, a co-worker has posted a sign reading MENTAL ILLNESS IS ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESS...
...first sign of revolt, interestingly, came from the outside directors who had come to dinner at the Waverly Hotel. Appalled by the gall shown by Johnson, whom one director called a "raider from the inside," a committee of five directors three weeks ago opened the bidding to all comers. First to accept the invitation were the most aggressive LBO artists of all, the Wall Street firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Headed by Henry Kravis, 44, and George Roberts, 45, KKR pioneered the leveraged buyout in the 1970s and nurtured it into one of the best-paying financial arrangements...
...shape," Bonnie says, taking the child to her side. "We're going to have to sign you up for Social Security." But her lightness has an edge to it: this may be the day it gets serious...