Word: anglo
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...black vote that had supported Ferre, but other voters may have perceived him as a bit too elitist. "I was viewed as the populist," says Suarez, who happens to be a Harvard-educated lawyer. He scored heavily among Cuban and other Hispanic voters and also took a majority of Anglo ballots. Shouted a supporter at his inauguration: "ĦUn alcalde para to-dos!"--A mayor for everybody. CULTS "I Never Want to Return...
That's a message that until recently only a few companies had received. The Anglo-Dutch firm Unilever, for example, has been successfully selling household products in developing countries for more than a decade. Unilever's Vietnam subsidiary alone saw sales rise 23% last year to more than $300 million because of aggressive efforts to reach remote parts of the country through an extensive network of more than 100,000 independent sales representatives such as Hon. "People want to look good, whether they're rich or poor," explains Arijit Ghose, marketing manager for Unilever Vietnam. "I've been to tiny...
...from Nebraska and Wisconsin--we all pitched in. We worked six days a week to get the Bomb first. There's been a lot of stories that maybe we had the Bomb and were sitting on it, that we could have used it in Germany but because we're Anglo-Saxons or whatever, that we only went against the Asians. That's not true. As soon as we got the Bomb we were ready to drop...
...Anglo-French Millionaire Sir James Goldsmith jets frequently between London, where he controls Cavenham holding company, Paris, where he owns the magazine L'Express, and New York City, where he watches over his Grand Union grocery-store chain. Goldsmith, 52, last week added another stop to his travels: San Francisco. He emerged victorious after an eight-month battle for Crown Zellerbach, the $3 billion California-based paper and forestry giant, and was named chairman of the board. Goldsmith now controls 51.3% of Crown's 27.4 million outstanding shares, and his investment partnership, General Oriental Securities, will get six of eleven...
...good news for fashion is that there are still plenty of big spenders out there. In Paris, Colette--the must-visit store for fashion fans--is packed. A woman spots a Russian sable scarf for $15,400 and buys it on the spot. Marko Matysik, the Anglo-German designer who supplies scarves to the store, sees the purchase and isn't surprised. "There were two of my chinchilla scarves here the other day, and they've both sold too," he says--for $14,400 each. They're the perfect accessory for that $10 tank...