Word: vote
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Barrios, an openly gay Latino Democrat, beat his Republican rival Ronald W. Potvin in a landslide on Nov. 3 with 88 percent of the vote. He won the September primary with 48.7 percent of the vote, more than 20 percentage points higher than his closest rival and almost 30 points higher than incumbent Alvin E. Thompson...
...their "what would the Rodino committee do" take (they wouldn't impeach). Still to come: Witnesses discussing abuses of power and defining whether obstruction of justice and perjury has been committed (our guess: it hasn't). The big guns come tomorrow when Clinton tries to appeal to the swing vote, the moderate Republicans, by trotting out the former darling of the middle-of-the-road GOP, William Weld...
...billion, the company is in a close race with Microsoft for the title of Most Valuable. GE chairman Jack Welch isn't the innovator that GE's founder Thomas A. Edison was, but this son of a railroad conductor and lifelong GE employee would certainly get my vote for CEO of the century...
Women have not been captains of industry until recently (and there are precious few in that position now). But that should be no surprise to anyone. For the first 20 years of the century, women couldn't even vote. Every time I think of that, it startles me. Even as Edith Wharton wrote many of her novels, as Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe with honors, even as women--tens of thousands of them--typed the documents and ran the offices and manufactured the arms that led to victory in World War I, we still could not vote...
...bosses had to be more clever, if not more subtle. Armand Hammer, whose business career lasted nearly the entire century, required many on Occidental Petroleum's board of directors--most of whom were employees--to give him signed, undated resignation letters that he could use if they tried to vote against him. His closest employees, according to one biographer, formed the Occidental Mouseketeers--with official membership drawings of a cowering mouse on a red carpet. But they weren't as beaten as the ITT execs of the 1960s and '70s, who were regularly grilled and even sickened in large meetings...