Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...culture of the new owners. "You don't quite know their values, where they're coming from or what they really have in mind for you," says Walter Scott, who served as a director of Pillsbury and later ^ as U.S. managing director of its acquirer, Britain's Grand Metropolitan. "There are lots of inducements to start working on your resume." Scott is now a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management...
...plan which turns management of one of the most impoverished school districts in the metropolitan area over to Boston University (B.U.) continues to draw fire from community members nearly one month after its initial implementation...
Organizers of the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Volunteer Project, just into its second year of operation, said they are working to educate New Yorkers about opportunities for public service, and running their own programs in the metropolitan area...
...dream of becoming a latter-day Citizen Hearst seems emblazoned upon the American entrepreneurial psyche. Over the past half-century, dozens of metropolitan papers have shut down and few have been salvaged. None have been launched successfully since New York's Newsday in 1940. Yet would-be publishers keep emerging; the example of others' failures seems only to add to the imagined glory...
Manhattan Transfer: The men's frustrating 1-0 overtime loss to Columbia left them with more memories of New York's stuffy subways, stale pretzels and sidewalk garbage than of Broadway, the Carnegie Deli or the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And these were no little-town Blues--after 120 minutes of brutal fouls from Lion defenders, the forward line could relate better to New York's muggings than its knishes...