Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abroad, he can close a deal in fluent Spanish or Portuguese. A political independent in a Republican-dominated business, he once criticized U.S. policy on Viet Nam during a White House meeting in front of his banking boss and a Cabinet officer. During the Reagan years, according to another account, Reed has driven up to the same prestigious Pennsylvania Avenue address in a humble white Toyota compact. Now the whiz kid once dubbed "the Brat" is steering Citicorp on a radically different course from the one established by his expansion-minded predecessor, Walter Wriston...
...promised to send a "signal" that Singlaub had the Government's blessing. Later, said Singlaub, Abrams told him that solicitation of one country, apparently Taiwan, would be handled at the "highest level." Singlaub took that to mean "someone in the White House." Abrams disputes parts of this account...
Between tables laden with cards, pennants and other baseball memorabilia, Greg Siegel, 14, clutched a prized possession, Catcher Johnny Bench's Topps rookie card. Greg has set aside what he calls a "baseball card account" for wheeling and dealing. After two years, he has parlayed a nest egg of $700 into slightly more than $1,000. Says he: "I think it may be better than even the stock market." And, without a doubt, considerably more...
...account of the tribulations of the Department of History at Harvard University which appeared in The Harvard Crimson and The Boston Globe seems to involve an assumption which may be worth some re-thinking. Be assured that I write this apologia for the elders among the Americanists in the Department out of no abiding affection for Harvard. Five years there as a graduate student in history in the 1930s left me with a deep distaste for that university as an institution, a distaste not wholly inconvenient since it enables me without scruple to toss the meeching appeals for further funding...
...though Biafra collapsed in January 1970, when its soldiers "laid down their rifles and faded away." Dan Jacobs writes from an intimate knowledge of the events, having served as U.N. spokesman on Biafra before resigning in protest over U.N. inaction. His story, while sometimes devolving into an overly detailed account of who-said-what-to-whom, is informative and compelling...