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...development-oriented Alliance of Boston Neighborhoods (ABN) takes a strong stance that the power structure is askew...
...state-appointed Boston Redevelopment Authority, which is autonomous from the city] has usurped the planning power of the city and we have no real recourse,” says Shirley Kressel, the president of the ABN. “This is the time to look at the mayor and his relation to this development...
...despite its disapproval of the current development, the ABN will not endorse Davis-Mullen...
Against the advice of more experienced colleagues who said Asians wouldn't eat bread or cheese, Heinecke opened the first Pizza Hut in Asia in 1980 in the beach resort of Pattaya, southeast of Bangkok. "It was a daring move," says Kitti Naktisuwan, an analyst with ABN AMRO Asia Securities. It was also the right move at the right time. Thais flocked to sample such customized wares as tom yum (spicy soup) pizza, and Heinecke, who became a Thai citizen in 1991, now has 116 stores taking about 95% of the country's $50 million-a-year pizza market...
...Europe banks and insurance companies have been free to buy each other for a decade. There's even a term for the combination--bancassurance. "It may be a new model for the U.S., but it's not a new model for Europe," Peter Toemin, bank analyst at London's ABN AMRO Hoare Govett, says of Citigroup. As the globe shrinks, Weill pointedly notes, "it's very, very important that some of the big ones...