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...panel will feature Safire, Kalb, MIT History Professor Pauline Maier, Justice Margaret H. Marshall of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, National Public Radio news analyst Daniel Schorr and David Shribman, The Boston Globe's Washington bureau chief
...Thailand the crisis put an end to what an analyst calls "golf-course capitalism" and raised the specter of domestic unrest. With credit growth far exceeding the growth rate of the economy, Thais had been investing in increasingly risky assets, dozens of golf courses among them. "Capital will be more productively used," says David Roche, president of Independent Strategy in London. "The people are the same...
...bloodbath," said Arnold Kaufman, a market analyst at Standard & Poor's. "It scares you because when you get a decline this fast, there's a risk it will keep snowballing...
Even Goizueta's mistakes were beauties: the disastrous new Coke, which nevertheless paved the way for a sales surge in "classic" Coke, and the purchase of Columbia Pictures, which he unloaded on Sony for a healthy profit. Says analyst Martin Romm of Credit Suisse First Boston: "He did more in 16 years than most people could hope to do in a millennium...
...continue under Goizueta's probable successor, M. Douglas Ivester, 50, the company president, who is expected to be named CEO this week. It is a notable achievement that Goizueta built a management team that can absorb his loss. "They really have a depth of management," says Jennifer Solomon, an analyst at Salomon Brothers. "I would be much more concerned if this issue arose at some other companies." Ivester has virtually run Coke's operations since being appointed president three years ago, which allowed the cerebral Goizueta to manage the big picture...