Word: anglo
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Until recently, calling a european executive Anglo-Saxon was considered a compliment. It meant the manager had a global outlook, was focused on the bottom line and gave top priority to keeping shareholders happy. Lately, however, the term has become an insult, suggesting an egotistical empire builder more interested in expanding the company through acquisitions than in the health of the core business...
...first to come to grief over his Anglo-Saxon ambitions was Jean-Marie Messier, a Frenchman equally at home in New York as in Paris. Messier was forced out as chief executive of entertainment giant Vivendi Universal last month because he ran up huge debts in a spree of expensive media acquisitions, among other sins...
...evaporate en route to court; if Clas-sical Graffiti sells as Batt hopes, the final bill could be €150,000. Both sides might care to ponder Cage's own observation that, "the very practice of music ... is a celebration that we own nothing." THE BOURSE The Steel Deal Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus will buy Brazil's CSN in a $4.3 billion stock and debt swap. The deal moves Corus from sixth to fourth place in global steel production. Pfizer Upsizer The race for pharmaceutical consolidation continued apace as Pfizer announced a $60 billion takeover of Pharmacia. The move solidifies...
...almost impossible to imagine that when she was born inside these whitewashed walls, McCluskieganj was a paradise for mixed-race children of the British empire. What Kitty remembers most about the early days is the hope. The settlers' idea was to create nothing less than a mini-state for Anglo-Indians. Their leader: Ernest McCluskie, a Scot-Indian who had felt personally the sting of discrimination from both the British and from Indians who resented that their mixed-race countrymen were eligible for better jobs. As a wealthy trader, McCluskie was in a position to do something about...
...Practically every house was Anglo-Indian," says Kathleen Hourigan, a matronly 55-year-old Irish-Indian. "There was a real togetherness. And there were lovely shows, picnics and dances. It was quite something." The farmers raised pigs and cattle and made mango jelly. There was a school, two hospitals, a clubhouse and endless rose gardens. Nothing it seemed, not even World War II, could touch McCluskieganj. And then, in 1947, came Indian independence. The community "just couldn't imagine a life without England," says McCluskieganj historian Captain David Cameron, 72. Some of the early pioneers had died and, without...