Word: swallowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...awfully hard to expect students to swallow the idea that, given the incredible spectrum of career options, such firms comprise the same percentage of the real job market as they did at the fair. The choices represented did students a gross disservice by perpetuating a narrow-minded perception of success...
...gods would rather focus on things like last week's $115 billion merger of MCI WorldCom and Sprint. It's a record-size deal befitting record-size egos and has implications for Wall Street, where they're trying to identify tomorrow's survivors--and the targets those companies will swallow today. If you want to play, look for AT&T, MCI WorldCom, Bell Atlantic and SBC to survive; their targets include many small cable and wireless companies, along with such big outfits as Bell South, Global Crossing, Cincinnati Bell, Qwest and Nextel...
...slaving away for the median employee?s annual income of $29,267, then the fact that Disney CEO Michael Eisner was paid $576 million last year is bound to get you whistling a Woody Guthrie tune. Never mind if you?re in the developing world and have have to swallow the fact that the combined worth of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Paul Allen ($156 billion) is greater than the combined GNP of the world?s 43 poorest countries...
...experience, no matter how difficult, has brought home to me one of the cardinal rules of journalism--perhaps, not surprisingly, the only one I did not learn at The Crimson: the art of reliance and admitting ignorance. I say art because it takes practice to swallow your pride--something none of us Harvardians are too adept at--and to ask for help from a total stranger. But it is in these moments of helplessness that I have gained incredible insight into the Tour and its people...
...experience, no matter how difficult, has brought home to me one of the cardinal rules of journalism--perhaps, not surprisingly, the only one I did not learn at The Crimson: the art of reliance and admitting ignorance. I say art because it takes practice to swallow your pride--something none of us Harvardians are too adept at--and to ask for help from a total stranger. But it is in these moments of helplessness that I have gained incredible insight into the Tour and its people...