Word: powering
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...likes of Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison. Coven-like hairstyles are passe; so are Elizabeth Taylor fat jokes, delivered Uzi-style a la Joan Rivers, and the kind of masochistic self-deprecation that kept Phyllis Diller in face-lifts for two decades. The freshest funnywomen have power smiles, well-toned bodies and social commentary that ticks before it detonates...
...that older women begrudge the young their hopes; rather they recognize how many choices will still be dictated not by social convention but by economic realities. The earning power of young families fell steadily during the '80s, so that two incomes are a necessity, not a luxury, and a precarious economy promises only more pain. When factories cut back, women are often the first to be laid off. As Washington battles its deficits, cutting away at food, health and child-care programs, it is poor women who will feel the hardest pinch...
...about one-third smaller than the baby boomers who came before, which means that employers competing for skilled workers will be drawing from a smaller pool. Today's young people hope that that fact, combined with some corporate consciousness raising about the importance of families, will give them bargaining power for longer vacations, more generous parental leaves and more flexible working conditions...
...struggling democracies of Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America, men no longer monopolize the seats of power. But whether from behind the veil or a presidential desk, women still face inequity...
...with employees, sharing information rather than withholding it and keeping the office door almost always open. Observes Juanita Kreps, a former Secretary of Commerce and a board member of several FORTUNE 500 companies: "Women bring a problem-solving attitude that embraces coordination more than the masculine drive to have power...