Word: alto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dapper trenchcoats walk arm in arm with girlfriends in high heels. Near by, in neon-lit consumer emporiums, grizzled countryfolk peel off huge sheaves of banknotes to buy TV sets to take back to their villages. The Jianguo Hotel is a replica of the Holiday Inn in Palo Alto, Calif. Not far away, Maxim's de Pékin serves haute cuisine at $70 a head. The regiments of bicycles that clog the streets have been joined by Mercedes sedans and Japanese-made Hino tourist buses. Earlier this month, the Peking Daily (circ. 500,000) ran a photo of an attractive...
...part. If the company failed to meet its performance goals, the employee would be forbidden to convert the junior stock to common shares. Thus the worker would make no money on the deal. But some firms set standards so low that their junior-stock plans became giveaways. Admits Palo Alto Attorney Lee Benton, a proponent of the stock: "Some companies took it further than it was ever intended...
...current business bestseller In Search of Excellence hails Hewlett-Packard as one of the best-managed companies in America. In 45 years the firm has grown from a garage in Palo Alto, Calif., to a giant whose $4.7 billion in sales embraces a wide range of high-technology products, which include minicomputers and electronic test and measuring instruments. Hewlett-Packard now ranks 75th on the FORTUNE list of the largest U.S. industrial companies, and its pocket calculators have made HP household initials among scientists and engineers...
...Suddenly the flag of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (F.A.R.C.), the oldest, largest and bloodiest of the country's numerous antigovernment guerrilla groups, was sighted in the jungle below. This time, however, the flag signified the making of history, not war. In a small clearing in the Alto de la Mesa rain forest, F.A.R.C. guerrillas and the government's representatives met to sign a momentous eleven-point cease-fire agreement. Last week Colombian President Belisario Betancur Cuartas triumphantly announced on national television his government's formal acceptance of that pact...
John P. Neumann '86, of Adams House and Palo Alto, Calif., appeared to have "jumped of his own volition" from the Criminal Courts building in downtown Manhattan, said New York Police Sgt. John Codiglia...