Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...machine in a single day. "They can't bring those people back," he says, "but they can at least give back to my mother, in her 80s, her wealth, her history and her standing." Singer asked his boss at the World Jewish Congress in New York for permission to begin an investigation of the Swiss accounts and got the go-ahead...
...Bronfman brought him a heaven-sent gift certain to appeal to his large bloc of Jewish voters. When Bronfman told him about the Swiss banks' stalling, D'Amato offered public hearings by his Senate banking committee. With the in-your-face D'Amato aboard, the war was about to begin in earnest...
...employees who are insisting on a share of the good fortune. The employees are also determined to protect themselves, as American's pilots are, from outsourcing and other forms of cost management. The result is escalating tension in an industry not known for touchy-feely labor relations to begin with...
...paying close attention to what happens at American. "The airline industry is a copycat industry," says Paul Omodt of ALPA in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which represents Northwest pilots. "What happens at one airline happens at another. There's not a lot of original thought." Labor negotiations are also due to begin at Continental...
...find a pretty orphan, take it home, dress it up and show it off. When TriStar said no to Pulp Fiction, the Weinsteins eagerly said yes and snagged their biggest hit ever. Last year 20th Century Fox backed out of The English Patient just before the film was to begin shooting. Instead Fox pinned its Oscar hopes on another sweeping morality play, The Crucible--only to see it swept away, at the box office and in the Oscar race...