Word: versa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commitment to promoting only from within has many ancillary benefits to those fortunate enough to be a part of the company. For one thing, it means that, should you choose P&G (and vice-versa), you can count on being surrounded by other outstanding individuals. In that sense, Procter & Gamble is much like Harvard. Another benefit of P&G's promotion from within is that Procter is firmly committed to the training and development of their people. This means that as an employee of P&G, I am surrounded by tremendous resources which the Company has made available...
...carried by 1,000 regular computer disks or about 250,000 pages of text. At this point, fewer than 5% of personal computers are equipped with CD-ROM players because no standard exists: a CD- ROM for Apple, for example, does not run on an IBM machine and vice-versa. As a result, the industry is paralyzed; book publishers have made few titles available on CD-ROM, and computer manufacturers have shied away from pushing CD-ROM players...
...save their last possessions. By Red Cross estimates, about 85,000 homes were destroyed or severely damaged by Andrew's winds, which topped 164 m.p.h. Many may have to be razed. Insurers, who put private payout losses at $7.3 billion, were struggling to make contact with policyholders and vice versa. Angry homeowners have already filed lawsuits for shoddy construction against firms like Lennar Homes, southern Florida's largest builder, and Arvida/JMB Partners...
Thayer is embroiled in a stupid but fun rivalrywith nearly Holworthy Hall. Legend has itthat the dispute originated when Holworthy wasbuilt on Thayer's polo ground, or vice-versa,depending on who you ask. The rivalry usuallysurfaces in "Holworthy Sucks.!"-"Thayer Swallows!"shouting bouts. At times, the conflict escalatesto more serious warfare involving water fights andhostages...
...successful artist working within a guild system that had changed relatively little since the Middle Ages. Thus he had apprentices, dozens of them over the years, whose work he sold for his own profit, and who sometimes worked on his own canvases. And they paid him, not vice versa -- 100 guilders a year for the privilege of learning in the studio...