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...wasn't alone. In the past three years, nine top Chrysler executives have deserted. They included Greenwald, who left in 1990 to lead an aborted worker buyout of United Air Lines' parent company (after pocketing $9 million for his work on that deal, he landed as a managing director for investment banker Dillon Read); and Robert S. ("Steve") Miller, another vice chairman and prospective Iacocca heir, who quit in February to go to Wall Street after telling the board that the right management team for Chrysler would be Lutz as top man and Miller himself...
Since the University insists that student groups make all policy decisions without following direction from any parent organization, the fraternities are forced underground...
...evening before the story appeared, the reporting team and their spouses met for a wrap-up dinner. It suddenly struck them that each couple included the parent of a daughter. Says reporter Pryne: "That was a factor for every one of us." It was another reason that, to them, the victims of alleged sexual harassment were not "hypothetical...
...Oooo-ow, Mom!" Most of us know that despairing wail, the cry of offspring on whom a parent has inadvertently visited heartrending shame: when we have overdressed or underdressed for some public outing with the kids in tow or cracked a dumb joke or otherwise called unwarranted attention to ourselves...
Dottie is, in some ways, a Stella Dallas for the '90s -- gutsy, good- hearted, slightly vulgar. And a very caring single parent. Like Stella, who broadly symbolized another generation's sentiments about motherhood, Dottie encapsulates those feelings -- much more ambivalent -- as well as anyone has in recent popular entertainment...