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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CEOs who is the last person they want to see at their annual board meetings, and the answer will be unanimous: Evelyn Y. Davis. With small holdings in some 120 firms, Davis attends 50 or more meetings each spring, needling executives with her comments on company policies and repeated calls for points of order. Her past targets range from Henry Ford II to T. Boone Pickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHAREHOLDERS: Score One for The Gadfly | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...quarter of the student body which is dissatisfied with their faculty contact, Light has only scorn, blaming them for their lack of initiative. That's a neat answer to a messy problem...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: March: A Thaw Deal | 3/17/1990 | See Source »

During a question-and-answer session, Fitzgerald offered aspiring actors some advice: "When the moment comes that you can get in [a company,] you should grab...

Author: By Jennifer R. Boyle, | Title: Actress Describes Experience | 3/13/1990 | See Source »

...Chamorro's decisive showing, winning 55% of the vote to Ortega's 41%, claiming victory was the easy part. A harder question is whether the politically unseasoned Chamorro, 60, is prepared to guide bankrupt Nicaragua through the difficult transition from a revolutionary state to a functioning multiparty democracy. The answer will hinge largely on whether the Sandinistas live up to their promises to relinquish power peacefully after ten years of rule largely by proclamation, military muscle and caprice. Given Nicaragua's history of never managing a change of government without bloodshed, the odds seem stacked against Chamorro. Adding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After The Revolution: The Sandinistas | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...hired and trained so far, but the agency will need thousands more, and finding talented employees has been difficult. "They do a lot of clock watching and bean counting," says a Houston real estate agent. "Everybody's so afraid of making a mistake that you can't get an answer. It's a mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is a Rescue? | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

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