Word: brooklyn
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...dumped James Robinson III for turning the company into an unwieldy financial supermarket. Golub promptly lopped off the brokerage, investment-banking and life-insurance units that Robinson had assembled, leaving American Express focused on credit cards, travel and financial services, including mutual funds. Golub, a sometimes abrasive native of Brooklyn, N.Y., initially slashed $2 billion out of a $13.4 billion cost structure, and has kept expenses in line with sales growth through such moves as downsizing the work force and streamlining procedures...
...always told I was undesirable for one reason or another," he says. "I got to the United States, and I expected there would be some of the same because I was an immigrant. And there wasn't." From his spot in a cramped one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, where he was housed by an aunt and uncle who had left Hungary in the '30s, Grove devoured Eisenhower's America...
...Thursday, the 69-year-old Gigante entered the Brooklyn courtroom well dressed, and without the wheelchair he had used during his four-week July trial. Knowing the Chin, the 21st century could find him jogging in Central Park...
IZABEL LAM INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Brooklyn, N.Y. 1996 REVENUES $2.5 million MARKETS All continents...
DIED. RUSS MEYER, 74, hot-tempered pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers and other teams; of heart failure; in Oglesby, Ill. Over the course of 13 seasons, Meyers pitched in three World Series, but his most memorable performance was a dugout tantrum in 1953 that justified his moniker, "the Mad Monk...