Word: shell
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...news, weather and sports, and have made the U.S. system of broadcasting the envy of the world," says National Association of Broadcasters spokesman Dennis Wharton. Maybe, but the more immediate question is whether digital radio will even get off the ground. Companies offering the satellite link will have to shell out millions in start-up costs, and then wait an estimated three years for stations to get their equipment in working order to pick up the signal. Another problem: no one seems to know what market, if any, exists for the digital service. For the moment...
Last weekend, the Crimson finally broke out from its shell. From the first face-off to the final buzzer, Harvard played with attitude, intensity and a certain amount of healthy cockiness which has been absent throughout most of its 21 games...
...discrimination. Otherwise, wrote Justice Clarence Thomas, who served at one time as head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, employees who have suffered from discrimination will shy away from complaining to the Commission, fearing that the move could hurt their chances for future employment. The case centered on former Shell sales representative Charles Robinson, a black man who sued Shell for racial discrimination after being fired in 1991 and subsequently received a negative reference from his former employer. So Robinson sued again, claiming that company officials who gave the recommendation were influenced by his previously unsuccessful discrimination suit. Lawyers...
...discrimination. Otherwise, wrote Justice Clarence Thomas, who served at one time as head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, employees who have suffered from discrimination will shy away from complaining to the Commission, fearing that the move could hurt their chances for future employment. The case centered on former Shell sales representative Charles Robinson, a black man who sued Shell for racial discrimination after being fired in 1991 and subsequently received a negative reference from his former employer. So Robinson sued again, claiming that company officials who gave the recommendation were influenced by his previously unsuccessful discrimination suit. Lawyers...
...name Botticelli summons up visions of Venus on the half-shell and elegantly-rendered deities of other kinds, but the view inside this exhibition is a bit disappointing. The exhibit brings together five paintings by Botticelli himself, three from his workshop and four prints derived from his designs. Sadly, the attempted contrast between Botticelli's early painting style and his style in the later years of his life is not readily apparent to the untrained...