Word: successful
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...again, is integrally related to school and family backround. Unfortunately, the organizations that are the most unfair in their selection are the ones which offer their members the most in post-college connections and benefits. The former members of these clubs are usually wealthy, white, male corporate and political success stories. They can offer the best in high-paying jobs to seniors hunting for post-Harvard occupations...
...request, the Big Board has taken a small stab at curbing the ups and downs but with little success so far. On Sept. 19, the N.Y.S.E. experimented with a procedure of informing the trading floor half an hour before closing of the major holdings at that time in the stocks that compose the Dow. The aim was to allow counterpositions to be built up by competing traders, and thereby smooth some of the program-trading swings. The SEC hopes to repeat the experiment in December. The problem, though, is that the times when the market gyrations will take place...
...largest news bureau. He called Howard Stringer, who had just been made acting chief of CBS News, and suggested that the two ride the Metroliner together in order to talk. For Stringer, then a leading candidate for the job of CBS News president, the train ride was apparently a success. "It was clear that Tisch had gained a great deal of respect for Stringer," says a CBS correspondent who attended a dinner with the pair. "We knew then the job was Stringer's to lose...
...interview with TIME, Enrile asserted that long before the issue of elections even arose, reformers within the military were plotting to topple Marcos (see box). Their plan to install a military junta crumbled, however, with Aquino's electoral success. Enrile said he then offered her military backing and proposed a Cabinet that would in effect form a coalition between Aquino and the military. Enrile charges that the "covenant" has been broken. Aquino supporters say the agreement never existed. Enrile maintains now, as then, that he is not looking to be President. "I have earned my place in history," he says...
HUNG UP, SETTING OFF RUMORS THAT SEVERAL WESTERN HOSTAGES WERE about to be or had already been released. Two days later Waite scored a new success...