Word: welching
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...practice, companies find that a multipronged approach leads to results. General Electric initiated an aggressive diversity strategy under former CEO Jack Welch that included employee networks, regular planning forums, formal mentoring, and recruiting at colleges popular with minorities. Perhaps most significantly, GE appointed a chief diversity officer, Deborah Elam. In 2000, women, minorities and non--U.S. citizens made up 22% of GE's officers and 29% of senior executives. By 2005, their ranks swelled to 34% among officers and 40% of senior execs. "Training just to train is not enough," says Elam. "You've got to have accountability...
...they'd need songs to push the audience into the fantasy mood the story required. That didn't happen; the authors decided to trust the audience to take this wild ride with them, and Burton summoned all resources of movie magic - his own seductive sense of ethereal weirdness, Bo Welch's gift for parodying suburban architecture, most crucially Johnny Depp's gorgeous otherness - to make Edward Scissorhands sing. No lyrics needed...
...Bourne reimagines the film's unnamed town as Hope Springs, and the local school as, of course, Hope Springs High. The show's designer, Lez Brotherston, has made Welch's gaudy pastels a bit subtler in shade, and simplified the neighborhood into two small houses (Peg's and Joyce's), with the castle above and behind. But the show seems even more populated than the movie. Five or six family clusters, of mom, dad and the kids, go out motoring in invisible cars. In a big pre-Christmas dance party, the floor practically vibrates with two dozen jitterbuggers...
...Tigers lose dominant starter Erin Snyder, the league’s pitcher of the year each of the previous two seasons,but plenty of talent still remains. Sophomore Kathyrn Welch is back to spark the offense for the two-time defending champions, along with senior designated player Cali Jo Varner. Anchoring the pitching staff this year is junior Kristin Schaus...
...team includes Rice's new deputy, John Negroponte, who was the first U.S. ambassador to post-Saddam Baghdad; David Satterfield, Rice's special adviser on Iraq, who served in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Iraq; Anne Patterson, former ambassador to Colombia, who oversees law-enforcement training in Iraq and Afghanistan; Welch, who was in the U.S. embassy in Islamabad in 1979 when it was seized by a violent mob; Nicholas Burns, Rice's No. 3, a Balkan-wars specialist and the point man for dealing with the Iran nuclear issue; and Christopher Hill, the U.S. envoy for multilateral talks on North...