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...December of last year, with economies settling down and currencies stabilizing, Rubin began to put in motion a long-contemplated plan to return to the private sector. Dining with Summers at the Jefferson Hotel, Rubin's Washington residence, he broke the news that he was leaving. Rubin felt strongly that the announcement of his departure and Summers' succession should be simultaneous. The Secretary also wanted to allow financial markets a full trading day to digest the news. Allaying market anxieties as well was an uncharacteristically non-opaque endorsement from Alan Greenspan reassuring Wall Street that Greenspan and Summers, whose friendship...
...reminding them that it never hurts to be out front on this type of thing." It's obvious that Ford cherishes its reputation as a leader in this area -- the company is the sole sponsor of TIME's "Heroes of the Planet" series -- but Thompson says the private sector's heart is in the right place too. "They're reading the same data about greenhouse gases everybody else is," he says. "And they're deciding it's better to lead than go kicking and screaming." With the kind of success the EPA is having, they'll have...
Each House or each sector of the Yard has atleast one SASH tutor "to serve as a `point offirst contact' for students who have concernsabout sexual harassment and assault," according tothe 1998-1999 SASH advisors' handbook...
...corporate world is struggling to find and keep talented women, there is another sector of the business community that is having no trouble at all: between 1987 and 1997, the number of woman-owned firms increased 89% nationwide; their employment shot up 262%, and sales grew 161%. "Entrepreneurship is very hot. It's one of the most talked-about subjects on campus right now," says Myra Hart, who co-teaches a course at Harvard called Women Building Business. "For many women, entrepreneurship is viewed as a way to have a profession where you have some control over your life, which...
...forget about keeping the worst global economic crisis since the '30s in check and away from U.S. shores. Asked a while back to explain the miracle, the meticulous Rubin put it this way: "It's some things we've done, some things other people have done, what the private sector has done. It's good fortune. It's all this coming together... Economic historians 25 or 30 years from now will identify factors you can't see from where we're sitting." Those same historians will also be arguing whether Rubin merely rode the wave or whether his hand...