Word: roosevelt
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...Franklin Roosevelt's martinis lifted the Oval Office many an evening. John Kennedy once showed up for work with a bandage on his head, claiming he cut it on a table while reaching for a dropped book. Research suggests that after ample champagne at a party, the President led a conga line into a wall fixture. The original photograph of Richard Nixon in the White House the night before he resigned caught two drained martini glasses at his elbow. The photo released to the public had the glasses airbrushed to remove the olives...
...American Institute for Managing Diversity, a research organization affiliated with Morehouse College in Atlanta, offers training for companies trying to manage increasing cultural mixing in the workplace. Institute director R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr. says racism is not always the explanation when a black supervisor creates discontent among white workers: "Sometimes people are not skilled at managing people who are different from themselves." As an agency manager in Atlanta a few years after his North Carolina post, Equitable's St. Clair presided over a 90-member office with just a handful of white workers. He found himself helping them cope with...
...system's insolvency. In fact, the Administration secretly feared a long-shot possibility that the drama of its bailout might spark a run on S & L deposits. To prepare for that dire prospect, senior White House officials and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan met in the Roosevelt Room of the White House the night before Bush's plan was made public. Greenspan agreed that the Fed would stand ready to pump billions of dollars in emergency loans into threatened thrifts...
...After you've had every other freedom -- the four that Roosevelt enunciated -- the last hobble on your freedom is religion. We saw it in the '60s in the hippie movement, when tens of thousands of young people quite purposely emancipated themselves from ordinary rules...
...after naval service and stints at three colleges, Doss returned to Bridgeport with a wife, family, and a B.A. from Roosevelt University in Chicago. All went well until his daughter Daria began to speak of many friends dropping out of Bridgeport high schools...