Word: avision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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You may never have heard of him, but if you've bought a home, rented a car or stayed in a hotel recently, you have probably encountered the handiwork of a high-powered, low-profile tycoon named Henry Silverman. Once a top Wall Street dealmaker, Silverman now runs a superfast...
Silverman, 56, has in fact been assembling a new kind of empire, one consisting of a loose confederation of brands in related services--rental cars and hotels, real estate and mortgages--that can reach consumers at home, at work or at play. In pursuit of that strategy, HFS last week...
Believe me, I do. But Jackson and the N.A.A.C.P. are right to keep the heat on until Bijur also agrees to a specific plan to increase minority ownership of service stations and do more business with minority-owned companies. Texaco's record so far does not inspire great faith--and...
As my parents tried to calm their petulant 17-month-old baby, a young and bushy-haired fellow approached. Clinton's first words were "Heeey there, you two. I've been wonderin' how long it would be 'fore I met the big guy. Give 'em here." At that point, Clinton...
In most businesses being first to market grants a lead not easily forfeited. McDonald's, Coke and Hertz debuted years before Burger King, Pepsi and Avis, and have held on. In the high-tech world, however, the opposite appears to obtain: early products such as Betamax and Macintosh were steamrollered...