In the United States in 1995, the Glass Ceiling Commission, a government-funded group, stated: " Over half of all Master ’ s degrees are now awarded to women, yet 95 % of senior-level managers, of the top Fortune 1000 industrial and 500 service companies are men.

A review in 2011 by Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy of companies in the Fortune 500 profitable every year from 2008 through 2010 stated these companies paid an average tax rate of 18. 5 % and that 30 of these companies actually had a negative income tax due.

Fortune stated he had been off cocaine for the past 2 years and, at the time, he was living out of his car and had put all his remaining money into his solo album " The Death of a Motivational Speaker ".

At its introduction, the 68000 was first used in high-priced systems, including multiuser microcomputers like the WICAT 150, early Alpha Microsystems computers, Sage II / IV, Tandy TRS-80 Model 16, and Fortune 32: 16 ; single-user workstations such as Hewlett-Packard's HP 9000 Series 200 systems, the first Apollo / Domain systems, Sun Microsystems ' Sun-1, and the Corvus Concept ; and graphics terminals like Digital Equipment Corporation's VAXstation 100 and Silicon Graphics ' IRIS 1000 and 1200.

The first true video slot machine was developed in 1976 in an industrial suite in Kearney Mesa, CA by N. Cerracchio, R. Greene, W. Beckman, J. Reukes, and L. Black under the direction of the Las Vegas based Fortune Coin Co.

* July 2 – 6 – British airship R34 makes the first transatlantic flight by dirigible, and the first westbound flight, from RAF East Fortune, Scotland, to Mineola, New York.

Usually polygonal in plan to give an overall rounded effect ( though the Red Bull and the first Fortune were square ), the three levels of inward-facing galleries overlooked the open center, into which jutted the stage — essentially a platform surrounded on three sides by the audience, only the rear being restricted for the entrances and exits of the actors and seating for the musicians.

According to a worldwide ranking by the École des Mines de Paris, Concordia ranks first among Canadian and 33rd among world universities in terms of graduates occupying the rank of Chief Executive Officer at Fortune 500 companies.

" " Fortune hunting became a disease " with the frequent result of a peculiarly American kind of crime, a form of " murder for money ", when " the young ambitious lover of some poorer girl " found " a more attractive girl with money or position " but could not get rid of the first girl, usually because of pregnancy.

In October of that year, a Fortune magazine survey to find the nation's favorite movie actor listed Tracy in first place.

Though primarily an albums artist, several of Baez ' singles have charted and the first being her 1965 cover of Phil Ochs ' " There but for Fortune ", which became a mid-level chart hit in the U. S. and a top-ten single in the United Kingdom.

At 4: 00 PM, the show trailed Feud, Price, and NBC's Wheel of Fortune, and fell out of the top three game shows in 1979 for the first time in the CBS run ( as opposed to a solid and twice top-3 hit in the 1960s ).

He achieved great film success in a 1966 comedy as a shyster lawyer called " Whiplash Willie " Gingrich starring opposite Lemmon in The Fortune Cookie, the first of numerous collaborations with Billy Wilder, and a role that would earn him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

This incremental approach broke new ground and by the end of the 1970s ( before the first cassette-based IBM PC was announced in 1981 ) over ten thousand ARCnet LAN installations were in commercial use around the world, and Datapoint had become a Fortune 500 company.

At present, Electronic Arts is the only third-party publisher present in the S & P 500 diversified list of large U. S. corporations ; in April 2010, it entered the Fortune 500 for the first time.

* 1998-Airborne entered the Fortune 500 list for the first time.

The Fortune of the Rougons ( French: La Fortune des Rougon ), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monumental twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.

The first English translation by Henry Vizetelly was published in 1886 and extensively revised ( to meet Victorian standards of propriety and avoid prosecution for issuing an indecent publication ) by Ernest Vizetelly in 1898, issued under the title The Fortune of the Rougons by Chatto and Windus.

Vastly different from its predecessor and prequel La Fortune des Rougon, La Curée, the portion of the game thrown to the dogs after a hunt, usually translated as The Kill-is a character study of three personalities: Aristide Rougon ( renamed " Saccard ")-- the youngest son of the ruthless and calculating peasant Pierre Rougon and the bourgeois Félicité ( by whom he is much spoiled ), both of them Bonapartistes and consumed by a desire for wealth, Aristide's young second wife Renée ( his first dying not long after their move from provincial Plassans to Paris ) and Maxime, Aristide's foppish son from his first marriage.

Following Eugene Rougon's rise to political power in Paris in La Fortune, his younger brother Aristide, featured in the first novel as a talentless journalist, a comic character unable to commit himself unequivocally to the imperial cause and thus left out in the cold when the rewards were being handed out, decides to follow Eugene to Paris to help himself to the wealth and power he now believes to be his birthright.

In many ways a sequel to the first novel in the cycle, La Fortune des Rougon ( 1871 ), this novel is again centred on the fictional Provençal town of Plassans and its plot revolves around a sinister cleric's attempt at political intrigue with disastrous consequences for some of the townsfolk.

** Wheel of Fortune aired its first episode on NBC's daytime schedule with host Chuck Woolery and assistant Susan Stafford

In November 1988, the theater played host to two weeks of Wheel of Fortune, which was taking its first road trip.

Life for the first time was the same trim size as its longtime Time Inc. sister publication, Fortune.

Soldier of Fortune from Raven Software uses simple routines to detail enemy models.

He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

His PI, Dan Fortune, was consistently involved in the same sort of David-and-Goliath stories that Hammett, Chandler, and Macdonald wrote, but Collins took a sociological bent, exploring the meaning of his characters ' places in society and the impact society had on people.

" The game's box also had three books of source material and game-playing tips: a Player's Guide, Game Master's Guide, and Guide to the Fortune Deck.

A 1966 Fortune magazine article reported that Jones ' fund had outperformed the best mutual funds despite his 20 % performance fee.

Several large, Fortune 500 automotive related companies had their headquarters in Toledo.

With the building of the Salisbury Court Theatre in 1629 near the site of the defunct Whitefriars, the London audience had six theatres to choose from: three surviving large open-air " public " theatres, the Globe, the Fortune, and the Red Bull, and three smaller enclosed " private " theatres, the Blackfriars, the Cockpit, and the Salisbury Court.

The show's runs in Edinburgh and the provinces had a lukewarm response ; however, when the revue transferred to the Fortune Theatre in London, produced by Donald Albery and William Donaldson, it became a sensation, thanks in some part to a favorable review by Kenneth Tynan.

Eleanor Bron's earliest work for television included appearances on David Frost's Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, My Father Knew Lloyd George and BBC-3, where she performed in sketches with John Fortune ; they had already worked together at Peter Cook's Establishment Club.

Baez has had a popular hit song with " Diamonds & Rust " and hit covers of Phil Ochs's " There but for Fortune " and The Band's " The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down ".

Tousey had his “ big six ”: Work and Win ( featuring Fred Fearnot, a serious rival to the soon to be popular Frank Merriwell ) Secret Service, Pluck and Luck, Wild West Weekly, Fame and Fortune, and The Liberty Boys of ’ 76, all of which ran over a thousand weekly issues apiece.

Fortune had turned against the French.

Although the colony had recently been reinforced by the arrival of new colonists from the ship Fortune, there were still only 50 men to work on the task.

Fortune, Machiavelli argues, seems to strike at the places where no resistance is offered, as had recently been the case in Italy.

Sneaking aboard the Fortune, Nick discovers on the back side of a sheet of music a receipt signed by Amboy acknowledging that Drake's debt had been paid.

The poor brothers and sisters and scholars were to be drawn from the four parishes that were most closely tied to Alleyn ( being St Botolph's Bishopsgate where he was born, St Giles, Middlesex where he had built his Fortune Theatre, St Saviour's Southwark where he had the Paris Bear Garden and had managed the Rose Theatre, and St Giles Camberwell where the college was founded ).

This was based on a misunderstanding by some of the British volunteers after Parrington in the summer of 1943 had visited the POW ' holiday camp ' at Genshagen, in the southern suburbs of Berlin, as representative of the Senior British POW, Major General Victor Fortune.

In his book, Dr. Wang notes that, to sell the VS, " we aggressively recruited salesmen with strong backgrounds in data processing ... who had experience dealing with MIS executives, and who knew their way around Fortune 1000 companies.

* Laura Dern as Lula Pace Fortune: Dern had starred in a supporting role in Lynch's previous film, Blue Velvet.

It was # 57 on the Fortune 500 list, and had 122, 258 employees.

The company was # 57 on the Fortune 500 list of highest revenue American companies in 1986, and had 122, 258 employees in 2000.

Soldier of Fortune reported that the movie's T-72 tank was such a precise replica that " while it was being carted around Los Angeles, two CIA officers followed it to the studio and wanted to know where it had come from ".

Flying was temporarily diverted to East Fortune, which had its runway extended to accommodate the airliners of the period.