Word: arkadi
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...millions in kickbacks and organizing huge arms commissions from the Angolan government during the mid-1990s. In the dock were such big names as Charles Pasqua, a former French Interior Minister; Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, the son of the late French President François Mitterrand; and Russian-Israeli billionaire Arkadi Gaydamak, who is currently a candidate for mayor of Jerusalem. The group is charged with having supplied almost $800 million worth of arms to Angolan President José Eduardo Dos Santos, including 12 helicopters, 6 naval vessels, 150,000 shells and 170,000 land mines...
...Arkadi Kuhlmann is annoyed by banks. He thinks that it's ridiculous for customers to pay so many fees. That it isn't too much to ask for a real person to pick up the phone when you call the 800 number. That you shouldn't have to jump through hoops to keep your personal information from being sold to other companies. But unlike your typical bellyacher, Kuhlmann is able to change things, since he's running a bank--one the rest of the industry is scrambling to copy...
...Boycottsinclair broadcasting.com and Stopsinclair.org Left-leaning bloggers like Daily Kos and Talking PointsMemo.com pointed thousands of readers to online petitions. A list of 200 major Sinclair advertisers and investors, with phone numbers and email addresses, made the virtual rounds. "We got $83,000 in donations our first day," says Arkadi Gerney, founder of Stopsinclair.org "For us, that's big money...
...answer questions. "Is it pronounced I-N-G or Ing?" a first timer asks. (The former.) With a hip sound track and stacks of ING Direct clothes for sale, the cafe feels more like Banana Republic than a bank. "It's not supposed to be avant-garde," says CEO Arkadi Kuhlmann. "We're basically saying banking should be as uncomplicated as a cup of coffee...
Second-year HLS student Arkadi Gerney said the plan would have been a significant first step in reforming the school in the wake of the McKinsey study...