Word: architects
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...dominant figure at the 1944 conference was John Maynard Keynes, then 61, the leader of the British delegation. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau led the U.S. contingent, but the real American architect of the Bretton Woods accord was Harry Dexter White, Morgenthau's plain-spoken chief adviser...
...most aggressive thrift institutions is Goldome, known as the Buffalo Savings Bank until last February. In a three-month period ending in March 1982, its assets surged from $3 billion to $9 billion, making it the second biggest savings bank in the U.S. Architect of the expansion is Ross Kenzie, a former Merrill Lynch executive vice president who became president of the Buffalo Savings Bank in 1979. Says Kenzie: "At this bank, there is a bias toward action." Goldome's acquisitions include three failing thrifts that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Government's watchdog for the banking...
...craft boat was another matter. Jeantot, who has dreamed of little else but circumnavigating the globe since he was a teenager, sank almost every franc he had saved as a highly paid diver into the $270,000 project. His greatest good fortune may have been to meet Naval Architect Guy Ribadeau-Dumas in 1982. Ribadeau-Dumas, 32, who had already designed successful racers, built several ingenious engineering features into Credit Agricole, notably a seawater ballast system that permits speedy adjustment of the boat's trim...
...architect of the plan to diversify the family wealth is Rockefeller Center President Richard Voell, 49, former chief operating officer of the revived Perm Central Corp. Voell, who has been on the job little more than a year, has targeted communications, financial services and entertainment as areas for expansion. But moving into new fields has not been easy. One investment has already flopped. Earlier this year, the company shut down a pay-cable TV service, the Entertainment Channel, which it co-owned with RCA Corp., after the operation ran up losses of $50 million. Now that it has been proved...
Acknowledging the criticism from some local artists who complain of too many repeats in this year's display, Graham Gund, a well-known collector and the architect responsible for the ICA's dramatic interior, explains. "It's impossible to please all of the Boston artists, and it's important to remember that the ICA helps Boston artists in other ways, by bringing the works of other artists here to educate local artists." Gund, whose collection includes works from all over the world, believes that "Boston artists are less 'out' than those in San Francisco and Chicago," nevertheless he says that...