Word: top
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this case, Kathryn Oberly, an attorney for Price Waterhouse, observes, "You couldn't have a better teaching example than to see the name of your firm in the newspaper for the past few years." Still, the firm has a way to go when it comes to women in top jobs. Even after the prolonged litigation, only 28 of Price Waterhouse's 900 current partners are women...
Performance artist. New vaudevillian. Silent clown. However you label limber-jointed Bill Irwin, he is one of the most winsome presences in the American theater. In the sketchbook Largely New York, which opened on Broadway last week, he wears a top hat and spectacles, carries a white cane and resembles an elongated Jiminy Cricket. All around him are people he might befriend, if only he could break through their obsessive isolation with entertainment machines -- a Walkman, a boom box, a video camera, a TV monitor. Irwin himself carries a remote control, purportedly hooked up to the tiers of curtains onstage...
...college student in a nearby Virginia suburb -- was 15 years old, but when the Washington Post retold it last week, Capitol Hill seemed unable to concentrate on anything else. The reason went beyond the sheer savagery of the act: the attacker, John Mack, 35, is now the top aide to beleaguered Speaker of the House Jim Wright and arguably the most powerful staffer in Congress...
...some U.S. allies, and an influential segment of American and European public opinion. The Secretary will propose a date, probably in June, for resuming the START negotiations on reducing strategic nuclear weapons. But otherwise Baker has no major U.S. initiatives to announce and no plans to match, let alone top, Gorbachev's innumerable catchy detente proposals...
...Shevardnadze interview was the culmination of a week of unprecedented access to the Foreign Ministry. The two spent 15 hours interviewing eight top diplomats and aides who offered insights into the workings of both the Foreign Ministry and Shevardnadze himself. In fact, the Soviets have become gluttons for glasnost. One session, conducted in both Russian and English, took eight hours. Says Blackman: "It was John and I who finally suggested we call it a day." At another interview with a top Shevardnadze staffer, Blackman was locked in the room to hear everything the official...