Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boeing can now get back to speed on its $85 billion backlog of commercial- jet orders. Under the new three-year contract, the machinists will receive 10% wage increases (their prestrike hourly pay range: $8.88 to $18.42) and lump-sum payments totaling 19% of gross...
Schwartz's "Mommy Track" idea unleashed a torrent of condemnation. Critics asked why women, and for that matter men, could not make a temporary switch to a slower track. Why couldn't workers slow down and speed up depending on the changing demands of their personal lives? Author Sylvia Ann Hewlett foresees a "sequencing" pattern in which dual-career couples would alternate the times in which they focus heavily on their work. A mother or father might be intensely involved in a project for a period of time and thereby earn credits for time off to spend with the family...
Today many major law firms have a slower Mommy Track, but women who choose to switch to such "part-time" positions (as many as 40 hours a week instead of 70) generally do not have the option of picking up speed again; they are out of the race for partnership. Other fields are even less accommodating. "In academic science, the granting situation is so tight that even if you are very creative, if you divert your energy to a child, it will be extremely difficult to compete," says Lola Reid, a research biologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine...
With superior size and speed, the Cornhuskers scored several fast-break layups and raced to a 55-35 halftime lead...
Harvard, however, stunned Colgate with sometough forechecking and amazing speed early in thethird period. Young rode a Red defender off thepuck and then took it into the zone for anunassisted tally just 1:34 into the period tostart the late-game battle...