Word: avaucourt
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...corporate pieces are skillfully manipulated by an expert chess player named Count Raoul Joseph-Marie de Vitry d'Avaucourt, 64, Pechiney's chief since the end of World War II and the antithesis of the tradition-bound European businessman. De Vitry (he does not use his title) began at the bottom at Pechiney, was decorated for fighting in the Resistance during the war, has made Pechiney's headquarters at 23 Rue Balzac in Paris as modern as his views about industry. "My motto," he says, "consists of two words: audacity and measure...
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