Word: armand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...search for Armand R. Therrien, who escaped Friday, had been centered in communities within 30 miles of Worcester but yesterday was expanded to other parts of the state and other states, including New Hampshire, said spokesman Gail Darnell...
...helped the bank recover from a string of bad real estate loans. But associates complained that Abboud was autocratic and contributed to flagging morale. In 1980 the bank's board ousted him. Abboud soon became president of Occidental, only to resign in 1984 after policy clashes with Chairman Armand Hammer. Since then, Abboud has run his own investment firm near his home in the posh Chicago suburb of Barrington. His reputation for toughness lingers, however, and Abboud seems to revel in it. "People think the A in A. Robert Abboud stands for abrasive," he has said. (Actually, it stands...
...Armand Hammer with Neil Lyndon...
...Armand Hammer's memoir of his 88 tumultuous years begins near the end, with accounts of his part in 1986 negotiations to clear the way for U.S. physicians to help Chernobyl's victims, and then in freeing hostage U.S. Journalist Nicholas Daniloff and a would-be Soviet emigre, Geneticist David Goldfarb. These incidents demonstrate his unusual role as a back-channel conduit between U.S. and Soviet officials. They also reflect the pragmatic approach Hammer takes toward the Soviets, his business partners on and off since the early 1920s. Readers will search in vain for indignation about the Soviet record...
...position to know what you want, then you're going to award that company a certain amount of points," says Eliot House resident Armand M. Nicholi '87, adding that, "unfortunately, most aren't in that position...