Word: strikingly
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Despite the words of this statement, Harvard students were denied their right to leaflet at the Harvard Business School (HBS) last Thursday. The students were raising awareness about the involvement of McPherson Professor of Business Administration Regina E. Herzlinger in a labor dispute involving a Teamsters union strike against Cardinal Health, a pharmaceutical distribution company. Herzlinger is a member of the Board of Directors of the company and is thus publicly responsible for its actions...
...this case, the problem concerns Cardinal Health, and its actions against striking workers. On April 4, 170 workers voted unanimously to go out on strike. This was in response to an offered contract that included a long-term wage freeze, benefits cuts and a decrease in work standards that were believed to pose a serious safety risk...
...crippled Iraq's economy since the country invaded Kuwait in 1990. If Saddam continued to resist, the White House signaled, it was more than ready to use military force. The Pentagon has 18,500 soldiers, 17 ships and 200 warplanes in the region poised to launch a retaliatory strike if the American inspectors in Baghdad are endangered...
...Neumeier, adapting a Robert A. Heinlein novel, a chance to satirize old-fashioned aerial-combat movies too. Johnny also has a frustrated high school admirer, Dizzy (Dina Meyer), who lands in his platoon, finally gets his attention and then heroically dies. This gives the filmmakers a chance to strike that note of romantic self-sacrifice--death transfigured--that is integral to movies of this kind...
...people saw me as a kid who inherited money," Field explains. "Jimmy was one of the first to see that I had creative ability in addition to business ability, and I helped Jimmy because I saw that he had incredible business instincts." Iovine's ease with musicians helped Interscope strike up several profitable partnerships with subsidiary labels, including Trauma Records, through which Interscope signed multimillion-seller Bush; Nothing Records, which brought Manson and industrial-rock innovator Trent Reznor; and Death Row, through which it co-financed discs by Snoop and producer...