Word: topness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yale win made the Ivy League title picture slightly clearer. Harvard's win over Dartmouth forced a four-way tie atop the league standings with Yale, Cornell and Brown. Next week, with Harvard playing at Brown and Yale playing at Cornell, the four-way logjam at top will be cut in half...
Subtract Radcliffe Institute Dean Mary Maples Dunn's name from the list of Harvard's top officials, and in one way 1999 might as well be 1699. All the names are male...
Harvard's top deanships and administrative positions have traditionally been dominated by men. Before Dunn's appointment this year, only one woman had served as dean of a graduate school...
...University's top brass is always drawn from the ranks of tenured professors, and so a shortage of tenured women keeps Harvard's glass ceiling in place...
...schmooze? According to the guide, No. 1 is General Mills, which, the authors say, is "a marriage factory." For those who find the concept of schmoozing too calculated, the authors argue that such interactions grease the workplace wheels for the betterment of careers and commerce. "Most people at the top of their fields are terrific schmoozers," say the authors. "They understand the importance of maintaining a strong, supportive and diverse circle of contacts to call upon...