Word: recordability
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Down 21 points with 10 minutes left in the third quarter, the Washington Redskins began a comeback destined for the record books. Twenty unanswered points. A team-record 674 total yards. An NFL-record 39 first downs. A 41-38 overtime win over the Detroit Lions...
...have broken through the middle ranks of management to the top jobs. A Korn/Ferry survey last year of all FORTUNE 1,000 companies found that of the top five jobs below CEO at each firm, only 3% are held by women, up from 1% a decade ago. The record is so dismal that earlier this year, Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole launched an investigation into bias in the corporate suite...
...decade is off to a fast start. In 1990 women entered races in record numbers, even exceeding the rush of 1972, when Senate passage of the Equal Rights Amendment gave women the incentive to run. This year 11 were candidates for Governor, 87 for Congress, eight for the Senate, and hundreds more for local office. Compare that with the paucity of female officeholders before Election Day: three women Governors (in Vermont, Nebraska and Arizona), 28 of the 435 Representatives in the House and just two of 100 Senators...
...swarmed to political rallies, urging that a "voice from the kitchen" reach the male-dominated government. Socialist Takako Doi, the first woman in Japanese history to lead a major political party, inspired an unprecedented number of women to run for the Diet's upper house, and they grabbed a record number of seats. Prime Minister Sousuke Uno resigned in disgrace after a former geisha he had patronized broke her profession's code of silence to denounce him as too small-minded a man to lead the country. His successor rushed to appoint two women to his Cabinet. The press seized...
Granted, its record was nothing to write home about. The Crimson (6-7-1 overall, 3-4 Ivy) managed only 14 goals in 14 games while getting blanked five times. Harvard had to settle for a fifth place finish in the Ivy League...