Word: state
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heads out into the sea of cubicles to meet with her contact in the client's finance department. At his desk, she doesn't sit down--but stands by the end of his desk and takes control of the meeting. Wang exhibits the same sensitivity to people's state of mind that she showed with Conrad--she asks the man about his daughter and about the progress of his new home. The unspoken message is that she understands how full his plate is. She leaves him with a so-called structured task, as planned. It is important, she tells...
...holistic vision of activism," says State Rep. Jarrett T. Barrios '90 (D-Cambridge). "You have to be able to put on your suit and talk to politicians, and get your message on the street to inflame the issue...
...these things are worth money," Cavellini says. "It's a combination of using tenant-protection laws that continue to exist on the state level and tenants working together to bargain for a better position...
...Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, which said "the Bush plan at least moves in the Reagan direction and realizes that taxpayers who built the current boom need incentives to keep it going." Bush, who trails John McCain in recent New Hampshire polls, should score major points among the state's famously tax-phobic Republicans...
...parents from taking advantage of the existing parental leave time, which is often unpaid. Now the White House is hoping to ease the financial strain brought on by the first few months of parenthood and sweeten the prospect of staying home with a baby. The proposal would provide state subsidies to new parents, who would collect at least part of their salaries while taking time off to care for a newborn or an adopted child. President Clinton's plan, which is essentially a bulked-up version of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, would leave the particulars...