Word: breen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard should not be proud of Frank Lorenzo," said E.J. Breen, the head of the Airline Pilots Association (ALPA), the union primarily responsible for organizing the rally. "The Business School holds him up to be a great American business leader but we don't believe him to be such. We think he represents everything wrong with big business today...
...Breen confirmed yesterday that Harvardadministrators, whom he did not name, told himthat Lorenzo would not attend the reunion. In thatdisussion, Breen said, the University officialsexplained that they had convinced Lorenzo not tocome to Boston. "Harvard asked him not to appear,"the union representative said...
...Muskie's frozen tears in the snows of New Hampshire. Ted Kennedy groping for meaning and a verb in an interview with Roger Mudd. Ronald Reagan squaring his jaw and asserting, "I'm paying for this microphone, Mr. Green!" Who cares that the man's name was actually Breen? It was great television...
...that made stocks increasingly vulnerable to a long- dreaded deep "correction." Once the slide started last Thursday, it picked up incredible speed because of so-called program trading -- computer- triggered waves of selling. By 11 a.m., the Dow had sunk almost 30 points. "It was remarkable," said Marvin Breen, a trader for Merrill Lynch. "I looked up at the screen, and it was down 20 points. Five minutes later it was down 30. Five minutes later it was down 40. It just kept dropping." Breen's account was only somewhat exaggerated: by 2:30 p.m., the Dow's plunge...
Virginia "Ginnie" Breen...