Word: uniformization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stock-option grants, easily the most lucrative part of corporate pay packages. These noncash payments, which reward executives handsomely if stock prices rise, often disguise what top managers actually earn. In the past, firms were not required to report a dollar value on such awards, and there was no uniform measure by which shareholders could calculate their worth. Breeden has proposed that companies disclose more fully and succinctly the present value of these payouts...
...that persists in many precinct houses tempts female cops to try to blend in and be one of the boys. All too often that means enduring the lewd jokes transmitted over police-car radios and the sexist remarks in the halls. In most places it means wearing an uncomfortable uniform designed for a man, including bulletproof vests that have not been adapted to women's figures. The atmosphere is made worse because about 3% of supervisors over the rank of sergeant are women, in part owing to lack of seniority. Milwaukee police officer Kay Hanna remembers being reprimanded for going...
Perhaps it is a lack of uniform passion that bothers Choi. Indeed, it seems that the "collective sense of identity" Choi envies in other ethnicities is a matter of passion. Black students can rally passionately for civil rights and Black pride. Jewish students can rally for the state of Israel and against anti-Semitism. Asian-Americans, on the other hand, have difficulty finding common ground because they consist of a wide variety of ethnicities, cultures and languages--unfortunately clumped together without much thought...
...abscence of racially uniform passion in Choi's life is not replaced by any personal passion. That he chose to join a "slew of clubs and activities" merely to pad his Harvard application belies his self-interest and does not represent his race. It is this view of Asian-Americans lacking passion and independent thought that I find most repugnant and incorrect...
...essays in The Architecture of Western Gardens are arranged chronologically by five periods, but they do not form a comprehensive or even uniform history of garden design. Rather, they use a grape-shot technique to cover both general topics and specific examples. Recurring concerns in the essays include the uses of architecture in gardens in the form of fragments and folies and, especially, the visual representation of gardens...