The most likely reason for departing a board was age, so the researchers concentrated on those "surprise" disappearances by directors under the age of 70.
Equal pay laws are ineffectual when women and men are concentrated in different occupations because such laws require only that women and men doing the same jobs be paid the same.
The whirlwind that swept through newsrooms harmed everybody, but much of the damage has been concentrated in areas where newspapers are least distinctive.
There is the danger that the high-speed connectivity of the Internet will reduce our attention span—that we will be incapable of reading anything of length or which requires deep concentration.
"Getting kids to turn off their phones, iPods, and computers in order to concentrate on homework and reading, he said," I think that's a fight worth having.