Word: projects
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Every other car has a Bulger sticker. Everyother house has a Bulger sign," says one residentof a nearby housing project...
Feinstein is not the only candidate who has attimes played up the so-called "advantages" ofbeing a woman. Others--Murphy and Richards amongthem--have stressed their "different voice," in aneffort to project change and compassion to thevoters...
...International, a private development organization in Cambridge, Mass. Accion has loaned $75 million to workers in Central and South America and created 100,000 permanent jobs. When Accion decided to widen its mission to fight poverty in the U.S., it dispatched Delma Soto-Larsen to start a self-employment project in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. She has an M.B.A. and has worked for Citibank and Chemical Bank, but her real education began when Accion sent her to Colombia to unlearn all that she had been taught. "You're doing everything that all the books tell...
...victims of logging, mining, dams and the fragmentation of their habitats. Almost daily we face another agonizing conflict between ecology and economics. In the Pacific Northwest loggers' jobs are pitted against the need to save ancient forests, the habitat of spotted owls. In the Southwest a $582 million water project is delayed because it threatens the squawfish. In Arizona a $200 million observatory was held up on behalf of some 150 rare Mount Graham red squirrels. Are all these species worth saving? And who among us is fit to make such decisions...
...there is an identifiably female brand of management, one that relies more strongly than the male- dominated variety on open decision making and consensus building. (See the issue for a story on this phenomenon.) Some of our staff say this approach was in evidence on the special issue, a project in which women largely directed the research, story selection, layout design and photo editing. "There was a remarkable degree of teamwork," says reporter-researcher Katherine Mihok, who was chief of research for the issue. "People concentrated upon the issue as a whole, not just the portion they were working...