Word: baron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little bare now," apologizes Baron Guy de Rothschild, 72, waving his hand at the empty black lacquered walls of his office on the seventh floor at 21 Rue Laffitte in Paris. Indeed, the art works by Bernard Buffet and Francis Picabia have been packed away, and out front workmen are getting ready to chisel the famous family name out of the sandstone above the entryway. Reason: the Banque Rothschild is being nationalized by the socialist government of French President François Mitterrand, along with the country's other major banks and holding companies. The Rothschilds, who are stepping...
...success stories that inspired the flood of capital are legion and legendary. France's Baron Marcel Bich, for example, bought the Waterman Pen Corp. in 1958 for $2.5 million and built it into the flourishing Bic Pen Corp. with annual sales of $200 million...
Power and Silence: Baron Haussmann's Legacy--Richard Sennett; Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall...
...early part of his two weeks in Europe holed up with Friend Bebe Rebozo, 68, and Assistant Nick Ruwe at a Paris hotel. But there were side trips to Versailles and Rheims and a two-day stay in the Bordeaux wine country at the château of Friend Baron Elie Robert de Rothschild. Next: Lausanne, Switzerland, and then on to Vienna, Flensburg, West Germany, and Denmark with an entourage of 30 friends and aides...
...Chrysler up to $1.5 billion in federal loan guarantees. On the bottles of black ink were the labels NOW BEING USED BY THE CHRYSLER CORP. Unable to resist winning a little more publicity for his products, lacocca arrived at the club driving a prototype of a 1982 Chrysler Le Baron convertible in its first appearance on public streets...