Word: upshot
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Some people felt the upshot of the "chair incident" would be the selection of a female president that November. Well, here I am. But my selection--and my presidency--were much more than that. There aren't "male" leaders and "female" leaders; there are good leaders and bad leaders. Paradoxically, The Crimson seems to have taught me both how much and how little gender maters in life in general. For all you ambitious Harvard women: You'll always be aware that you're female, but obsess about it and you're in trouble...
...perhaps the most incredible remarks I've ever heard in a court of law in 32 years of practicing law . . . To say that our mostly African American jurors can't be fair is absolutely outrageous." At one point during the back-and-forth O.J. Simpson began to cry. The upshot? Judge Lance Ito said the motion to block the defense from questioning Fuhrman was "premature...
...upshot is that the benefits adjustment seems to have split the University into two camps: the administration which formulated and approved the changes, and the people who have to live with them...
...investors about its sales of $1.4 billion in risky oil and gas limited partnerships during the 1980s. But federal prosecutors, as expected, agreed to set the charges aside for three years if the company fulfils various obligations, including doubling a $330 million fund set up to reimburse investors. The upshot: a long criminal probe is now officially closed...
...upshot, according to TIME's Board of Economists, is this: the increases in productivity, or output per worker hour, that have helped make the U.S. No. 1 again have also laid the groundwork for an unprecedented period of steady growth in output and employment with little inflation. Says Stephen Roach, senior international economist at the investment firm of Morgan Stanley: "Ultimately, that could be translated into the long-awaited improvement in the standard of living of the American worker." But, as he and other board members note, it hasn't happened yet. Making it do so, says Roach...