Word: bine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investments. Philip Hill, whose directors held their salaried jobs by right of talent alone, was brash, inventive and daring. With Philip Hill's top man, a rugged ex-lieutenant colonel of the Welsh Guards named Kenneth Alexander Keith, 49, as deputy chairman and chief executive of the com bine, the Hill team pushed ahead with deals that offended the traditional can ons of the Samuel group, and often did so without telling them. Managing a takeover of Selfridge's, the London department store, the Hill faction went so far as to raise its bid for shares with...
Biggest of the builders is Milan's Impregilo, which is a permanent com bine of three firms. It is responsible for four African dams, another in Iran, and one under way on the Euphrates River in Turkey. Along with these projects, worth $300 million altogether, Impregilo recently outbid an Anglo-German consortium for a $250 million hydroelectric project on Peru's Mantaro River. Tackling smaller-paying jobs as well, Impregilo is helping move the temples of Abu Simbel before the area is fully flooded...
...broad variety of products. Last week's was not only the biggest of that lot, but the most important case of its kind since 29 electrical equipment companies were brought to court on similar charges three years ago. But where the electrical case concerned multimillion-dollar tur bine generators that seemed remote from the everyday consumer, the new indictment covered the commonest grade of steel-the carbon sheets that go into almost every car, refrigerator and washing machine made...
...read with interest your perceptive article on Mr. Goodman's Leningrad performance of the Rhapsody in Bine, in which I was soloist [TIME, June 29]. I would like to say that unfortunately I had no time to "brood" at the auditorium as I was Milan-bound for my next engagement well before the second half of the program got under...