Word: conventional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...temporal O mores! It has been some years since young women needed or wanted such protection. As a near convent in an area of singles bars, the once elegant hotel had sadly declined before its purchase last year by a partnership that includes the Oberoi Hotels of India, Asia's largest hotel chain. While reserving a wing for the 113 women who still live there (some of them for more than 40 years), the new owners have started to remodel the 22-story building as a conventional hotel open to everyone...
...their own natural gas well. While the community prayed for divine assistance, the two-man J & L Well Service Co. began drilling for gas on the nuns' 100-acre property. Within four days, natural gas was found; today this private energy source heats the two-story convent that houses 140 Benedictine nuns and a chapel that seats 300 people. The sisters' $105,000 investment-which came from selling stock they owned-has so far saved them $7,000 in heating costs, and geologists are busy surveying for a second well. Says Sister Maureen Tobin, the subprioress...
...until the Irish influx, mistrusted and resented the destitute and poorly-educated newcomers. They Yankees were shocked by the "dissolutness" of the foreigners--who frequented local taverns--and afraid of the Roman Catholic's allegiance to the Pope. Early one morning, after a band of Protestants burned the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, an auctioneer from the Old Village hurried from door to door rallying citizens to guard Harvard, for fear the Catholics would burn the College in retaliation...
Pfeiffer's troubles at NBC began almost as soon as she arrived. She was quickly faced with a nasty $1 million scandal involving expense-account fraud and kickbacks among field-unit managers. Pfeiffer, who once spent six months in a convent, earned herself the sobriquet "Attila the Nun" by rooting out the wrongdoers with the wrath of God and a team of lawyers and accountants that ran up a tab of more than $2 million. "It looks like you sent in the whole damned Marines to rescue a cat," Vice Chairman Richard Salant reportedly quipped at a staff meeting...
Worst of all, Griffiths seems to have failed at assembling a strong management team. NBC Chairman Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, who became known within the company as " Attila the Nun" because of her strong personal style and onetime residence in a convent, is rumored...