Word: bjorn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little debt and can borrow money more cheaply than most competitors, a considerable advantage because in Bollenbach, 54, Hilton has one of dealmaking's master players. Indeed, there's barely a major hotel company that doesn't bear his imprint. "He is the best in the hotel business," says Bjorn Hanson, head of hotel-industry practice at Coopers & Lybrand, an accounting and consulting firm. "He has demonstrated that in what he has done with Disney, Marriott and Trump. He's done something different from what anyone expected. It's just sort of a Midas touch...
...Bjorn R. Olsen, Hersey professor of anatomy and cellular biology and a member of the scientific advisory board of Organogenesis, Inc., says he has held a stock option in the company for the duration of the time he has worked for them...
...further complicate matters, Countess Malcolm (Margit Carlqvist) is jealous of Desiree, and Henrik (Bjorn Bjelvenstam), Egerman's grown son from his first marriage, is in love with Anne. Old Mrs. Armfeldt, prodded by her daughter, invites everyone to spend the weekend at her country estate. During the course of the summer night, and under the influence of a mysterious love potion served at dinner, eight people turn into four couples...
Slate is survived by his wife, Jocylin; two children, Justin and Mallory; and four grandchildren, Bjorn, Ursula, Jessica and Jonathan...
...HISTORY TEACHES US: TODAY, IT'S AGAINST FOReigners; tomorrow, it's against the handicapped; and the day after, it's against those who think differently." Thus spoke Bjorn Engholm, leader of Germany's Social Democrats, at a special party congress in Bonn on right-wing violence. After months of painful argument over its long-standing defense of Germany's liberal immigration policy, the opposition SPD heeded Engholm's call and voted to move the party's position for political asylum closer to that of the ruling center- right coalition. The decision to push for a constitutional amendment to stem...