Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bernard Ebbers, a former high school basketball coach, helped found WorldCom in 1983 to sell long-distance service. He has since put up numbers worthy of company pitchman Michael Jordan. Anyone who invested $100 in WorldCom stock when the company went public in 1989 would have a holding worth $2,400 today. No telecom company has done better. WorldCom has rung up that performance by connecting an astonishing range of deals. The largest was last year's $12.5 billion acquisition of MFS Communications, a local phone company that had just acquired UUNet. Yet WorldCom remains a little-known empire that...
...YORK CITY: Despite a record surge that saw markets in Hong Kong and Indonesia jump by more than 7 percent Wednesday, international money managers remain concerned about stability of economies throughout Southeast Asia, says TIME business reporter Bernard Baumohl. Last month's Thai currency crisis has International Monetary Fund managers sufficiently spooked to put the prospect of a major banking collapse in shaky Southeast Asian markets atop the agenda of this month's IMF meeting. "These countries aren't experienced in financial calamity," says Baumohl. "They really don't know how to protect themselves, and may not even have...
...attorney for the Al Fayed family ? owners of the Ritz hotel that employed the allegedly drunken, speeding limo driver Henri Paul ? is threatening to sue photographers for damages. The lawyer, Bernard Dartevelle, launched the latest volley in his media offensive by stressing that a witness reported seeing a motorcycle zigzagging in front of the Mercedes in an apparent bid to try to slow it down, just before the crash. One of the attorneys representing paparazzi under investigation for manslaughter counters that the photographers are being targeted as "sacrificial lambs" in a prime-time case of "showbiz justice" aimed at pleasing...
...office of inspector general. "It's quite a different face on the Los Angeles police department," says Edith Perez, president of the city's new police commission, a civilian body that oversees the 9,400-member department. Last Friday the city swore in a new police chief, Bernard Parks, an African-American veteran of the force who promised to "provide a better service to the citizens...
...preposterously meager $25,000, and which Sony Pictures Classics bought for less than $50,000) earned $196,157 its first week on just eight screens. And if tickets could be sold for discussion groups after the show, it would have made even more. "Women love the movie," says Tom Bernard, co-president of Sony Classics. "It shows men behaving badly, and women feel like a fly on the wall watching the things men do." Stacy Edwards, the Juliette Binoche look-alike who beautifully embodies Christine, says, "I've had men come up to me and say it was really uncomfortable...