Word: townes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bars of a song over and over again. I wondered whether this adventure was a good idea. The bus delivered me to New York's Port Authority with just enough time to change into more respectable clothing in the definitely proletarian bathroom. I hailed a cab and rode across town to a French restaurant, eager to meet Shih-yu Wang, the young consultant I would be shadowing for the next 24 hours...
...Family is a complicated question for a consultant. When a parent/spouse is out of town for an average of four days and three nights per week, they must make some pretty significant compromises. Tom, who has a daughter, and Mike, who is married, both assure me that happy families and management consulting are not mutually exclusive. Mike says that it has always been challenging for him and his wife but that her recent return to school has made it less difficult. "She has class at night on each of the days that I'm out of town, so she doesn...
...town policy, she said, goes...
...hour-and-a-half "town meeting" was designed to showcase the breadth of Bradley's expertise in foreign affairs in the wake of questions about the competency of the leading Republican presidential contender, Texas Gov. George W. Bush and also to distinguish himself from the policies favored by Al Gore '69, his leading Democratic rival...
Marley, who died of cancer in 1981 at age 36, brought the Third World to the whole world. The dirt streets of the Jamaican slum of Trench Town, the myths and tales of the Caribbean, the wisdom and fire of the Old Testament--he drew from it all, creating reggae music, rebel psalms, that rang with poetry and prophecy. Romance, for him, was not incompatible with revolution; bullets and ballads were both the stuff of his work. He envisioned a world beyond this one but never lost sight of the horrors and joys of the here...