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...decade ago, Abby Waters, now 46, was a sales rep for a pharmaceutical company in Boca Raton, Fla., and was "totally miserable." Come Sunday night, she would dread Monday morning: "It got to the point where we were just dropping samples at the doctors' offices." That was 1994. She quit her job and wandered around for the next few years looking for a better idea. "You talk about a midlife crisis," she says. She had money troubles; her marriage fell apart. And she turned 40. "My friend called from the Carolinas. I told her, 'I don't want...
...right over what’s convenient comes at a very high price. Whistle-blowers get fired, blacklisted, and branded as troublemakers, making it harder to find new employment. The cost can be sometimes even higher—women in the armed forces and police corps often dread filing sexual harassment claims in fear of backlash by their male colleagues for turning against one of their...
...menial task that most would dread quickly turned into a bonding opportunity as the BMF board members, clad in identical club T-shirts, bumped shoulders with the pre-frosh, swapping stories and laughs...
After 56 years of quiet business, the AID Insurance Co. recently found itself the object of unwelcome attention. No matter that there is no connection between the company (1984 sales: $169 million) and the dread disease acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). "The associations are incredibly unpleasant for us," said AID Insurance President John Evans. "We didn't see it getting any better...
...operation was a startling 2 in. across, most doctors following his case had been predicting the outcome of the pathologists' tests. So they were prepared last week for Dr. Steven Rosenberg's dramatic announcement that "the President has cancer." But ordinary citizens may have been confused when, with the dread words still hanging in the air, Rosenberg went on to say that the malignancy had been removed and that no further treatment seemed necessary. Indeed, under the circumstances, it might have been more appropriate to say that Reagan "had" cancer...