Word: tape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recently, the Texaco corporation settled a high-profile racial discrimination lawsuit for a staggering $176 million. Accounts of discrimination and harassment at Texaco were widely reported in the media, and a damning tape of top executives sneering at black employees and conspiring to destroy employment records was released to the press. One could interpret this story as evidence that pervasive racism still plagues corporate American, and that herculean efforts are sometimes necessary to shatter the glass ceiling...
...tells her stories. Her voice is at once warm and precise--her transitions seamless as she knits together bits of speeches, sweet childhood memories, op-ed arguments, motherly advice--so that even a recitation feels like a personal confidence, shared over dinner with a stranger and a tape recorder...
...raised in Dallas (she now lives in Brooklyn, New York). She studied theater at Louisiana's Grambling State University but, after deciding that "a degree is a piece of paper," left to pursue a music career. Kedar Massenburg, a 32-year-old record-company executive, heard Badu's demo tape and offered to sign her to his fledgling label, Kedar Entertainment. Says Badu: "I had several offers, but I went with him because he was young, black, very smart, and he had a vision. None of the other labels had a vision. I was afraid I'd get lost...
...trying to make the space more accessible for student-initiated activities by eliminating some of the red tape involved in booking Loker Commons and Loker Commons Coffeehouse performance space," Engel said...
...have seen it maybe 20 or 30 times on tape," he said. "I'm obsessed with Star Wars...