Word: breen
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...Breen, the man who succeeded the infamous Dennis Kozlowski as CEO of Tyco, took time off from the job in mid-November to speak at Grove City College, his alma mater. "I get goose bumps when I walk into this chapel," Breen told the assembly at the small Christian college in rural Pennsylvania. A churchgoer known for his plain lifestyle, Breen has never forgotten the old-fashioned values he learned as a student. "Humility, service and lifting the human spirit work as well in the boardroom as they do in the classroom," he said. That same week his flamboyant predecessor...
...what is fast emerging as a corporate morality play, Breen (the good) has set out to methodically reform the Tyco that Kozlowski (the bad) left in disarray. To Wall Street's approval, Breen, formerly president of Motorola, is having considerable success at a company that under Kozlowski had come to represent corporate greed. Tyco's share price has more than tripled, from a low of $8.21 when Breen took over in July 2002. The mountainous debt Kozlowski amassed is steadily being paid down. Tyco is heading back into solid profitability this year, having lost money in 2002 and narrowly avoiding...
...tell. So The Aviator will detail this rich and randy bachelor's dalliances with Katharine Hepburn (played by Cate Blanchett ), Ava Gardner (Kate Beckinsale) and Harlow (Gwen Stefani of the band No Doubt). The film teems with other Hollywood potentates, from MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer to supercensor Joseph Breen, and promises to be a loving, caustic tribute to a town whose glittering streets can be every bit as mean as those in Scorsese's Little Italy. And unlike the director's Gangs of New York, it won't take 32 years to finish. We can hope...
...potent Roman Catholic lobby formed the Legion of Decency to rate films. Soon after, Will Hays, the industry's political and moral arbiter, called on Joseph Breen, a prominent Catholic, to enforce a rigorous production code. Studios rushed to sanitize some projects (West got married at the end of Belle of the Nineties) and dump others (MGM had to wait 12 years to film The Postman Always Rings Twice). Moviegoers that summer Sunday may have been shocked by the sudden absence of shocking dialogue and situations. But filmmakers evolved a new "code," one that traded starkness for subtlety. Audiences quickly...
...students credit Rita M. Breen, the executive officer for the Committee on African Studies, and Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Robert H. Bates, a committee member, for their work in providing them with summer grants...