Word: accountant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lester, an account executive with Leo Burnett U.S.A., concurred with Silbert's evaluation, remarking that, even in her relatively small advertising firm, she encounters obstacles in her informal interactions with client companies...
...said to a friend who went to his dormitory to discuss a problem set "You must save me!". On Nov. 5, Hailei went back to work early in the morning and talked briefly with his advisor. He committed suicide at 2:15 p.m. that afternoon. According to Kung's account, he did not notice anything abnormal of Hailei during their last two conversations on Tuesday and Wednesday...
...bought out Dakota Trail, Inc., adding a 50-worker plant in Alpena, S.D., to the Minong factory, which employs 325 workers. Export sales are growing faster, though, and the company is eyeing Costa Rica, Malaysia and Nicaragua as potential new markets. Within two years, it expects exports to account for 25% of total sales. All of which Jay Link sometimes finds hard to believe. Says he: "For us to come out of a town in the north woods and make it worldwide has been somewhat of an amazement to me." --Reported by Marc Hequet/St. Paul...
...title story, less obviously a fantasy and more difficult to bring off for lack of stage effects, traces the years of watching and listening that tie a woman to a large, rundown ranch in Texas. The point of the long, brooding account is simply for narrator and reader to understand these profound ties, the connectedness of memory, time's flow, seed's uncurling, and "the spider's silk lines of chance." Writing of this quality creates a stillness in the mind...
...accepting the money, South Korea agreed to stringent IMF conditions. The 1998 growth rate must be cut to 3 percent; inflation must be kept below 5 percent; and the current-account deficit must be slashed to within 1 percent of GDP. There's precious little sugar with this medicine ? Seoul must maintain flexible monetary policies and allow temporary hikes in interest rates, says the IMF. A final bitter blow is that foreign investors will be allowed to increase their shareholdings in Korean companies to 50 percent this year ? up from the 26 percent limit currently allowed by the government...