Word: allen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...digital age, Fisher is on the short list for many high-profile ceo jobs that become available. He spurned an offer to head IBM before Louis Gerstner took that turnaround job in 1993. More recently, Fisher was widely viewed as a possible successor to AT&T chairman Robert Allen. Perhaps partly to scotch speculation that he might be leaving, Fisher agreed to lead Kodak until December 2000 and was rewarded with options to buy 2 million shares at an exercise price of some $90 per share--now far under water. "My job here is only half done," he acknowledges...
...really understand why there's a policy in the yard that students have to stand 100 meters from any dorm to smoke. As long as they don't leave cigarette butts around. I think it's okay. --Elizabeth A. P. Allen '00, Holworthy...
...Courtney's friends were allowed to graze like hunter-gatherers at mealtime, with full carry-out privileges (Chinese, pizza) and access to expense-account restaurants that had their parents' credit card on file. I was so depressed by the thought of kids' eating out of a carton, like Woody Allen, or high off the hog, like a porky lobbyist, that I insisted that mine eat at home, even when I was heating up Stouffer...
...Side apartment. The album was a gift from Sigourney Weaver, who plays his mistress in the film. It seems that Kline was rehearsing a benefit Shakespeare performance during shooting and spent every spare moment reciting speeches to the cast and crew. Weaver got director Ang Lee, co-stars Joan Allen, Christina Ricci and others to pose while yawning, sleeping or looking otherwise bored during Kline's endless classical recitations. "I always wait till the yawns are audible before stopping," Kline says...
...more than $137 million for training, operations, logistical support and in-kind contributions. The Department of Defense plays a large part in the training component of this effort. We have deployed explosive-ordnance-disposal personnel and engineers to Bosnia and 11 countries in Africa, Latin America and Indochina. H. ALLEN HOLMES, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict Washington...