Word: stanfords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medieval-history major at Stanford, Fiorina holds an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland and an M.S. from M.I.T. She once worked as a secretary at HP before joining AT&T in its Washington office, where she sold phone systems to the government. Her career trajectory has been steepening ever since, to the point where her husband, Frank Fiorina, 49, took early retirement from his job as a director of government sales at AT&T to become a full-time househusband. He knew early on, he says, that she was destined to become...
...Florida lawsuit, representing as many as 500,000 smokers, now enters the damages phase, seeking up to $200 billion. And that's just one state. The verdict could give a boost to more than 60 class actions pending across the U.S. Says Stanford law school professor Robert Rabin: "The industry's fear all along has been catastrophic liability in one of these aggregate cases, where thousands of claims are tied together...
...Condoleezza Rice, Provost, Stanford University...
...across the board, getting into a U.C. campus. "We're talking about pushing kids to a 1200 SAT and 3.7. That's maybe three B's allowed," says Juan Lara, director of Irvine's Center for Educational Partnerships, which runs the outreach program. "209 has set up Harvard or Stanford admission standards for a public university...
...need to choose what activities you would be involved in, because you could do all of them. No need to decide which offices you wanted to run for--the president, every time. No need, in effect, to decide what you wanted, because you knew what Harvard or Stanford or Princeton wanted, and it was within your capabilities. You may not have had to go through the painful process of deciding into what clique you fit. You had your own: the Best, respected by all. Since this section is titled "My First Year," I should state the obvious and say this...