Word: allene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations will travel to Richmond, Va., this weekend to unveil a memorial he designed in honor of tennis great Arthur R. Ashe...
...cable-TV programmer, to launch a two-way video service that will let viewers receive movies on demand and shop from home. AT&T is also discussing a partnership with the nation's largest cable-TV operator, Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI). Says AT&T chairman and chief executive Robert Allen: "This ain't Ma Bell...
Most of the credit for AT&T's resurgence goes to the company's risk-taking CEO, Bob Allen. Lanky and quietly determined, Allen has spent his entire 36- year career within the Bell System and AT&T. He learned to take chances from his father Walter, who quit his job of 21 years with the J.J. Newberry chain of five-and-dimes to purchase a bankrupt children's clothing store in New Castle, Indiana. "Talk about courage," recalls Allen, still in admiration...
...Allen took charge of AT&T after the sudden death of CEO James Olson in 1988. Olson had guided the company through the painful period following the breakup of Ma Bell, when it chopped its labor force 19%, or 70,000 workers. It was Allen, though, who changed the company's lockstep culture. Going against tradition, he recruited top executives from outside, including Alex Mandl, former president of the Sea-Land ocean-shipping concern, as chief financial officer; Jerre Stead, former chief executive of electrical-equipment maker Square D, as head of the computer division; and Richard Bodman...
Judge excoriates Allen -- calls him "untrustworthy...