Word: verbalizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CONSUMERS AND INVESTORS OFTEN get nervous stomachs when they hear talk of synergy, that snaggle-toothed harbinger of bad mergers. So Aetna Life & Casualty Co. chairman Ronald Compton was administering verbal sedatives last week when he talked about the proposed merger between Aetna and U.S. Healthcare Inc. that will create the country's largest medical-benefits corporation. "The two companies are in fact complementary," said Compton. "They are yin and yang...
Incidents of Verbal Abuse...
Calling into question the actions of senior administrators at the Kennedy School of Government, Professor of Public Policy Gary R. Orren was granted tenure in 1988 even though support staff said they were subjected to ongoing verbal abuse, sources said recently...
...Verbal abuse was not the only unpleasant part of working for Orren, office workers...
...exceptions we should be making more of. Instead of giving the benefit of the doubt to under-represented minorities, a lower GPA can be accepted for a student who worked 15 hours a week to help her parents maintain the family; for a Vietnamese refugee with a lower verbal SAT score; for a student from rural West Virginia (where there are no science research institutions to do a junior-year research project) with less extensive extracurriculars...