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Under Empire Builder Harold Geneen, ITT devoured 275 companies and went from annual sales of $765 million in 1959 to $17 billion in 1979. But since Geneen's departure, the company's performance has slowed from go-go to nogo. Araskog has tried to revive ITT by shedding more than 60 subsidiaries, worth about $1.5 billion, but the company remains dangerously short of cash...
...Alaska, James McClure of Idaho and Pete Domenici of New Mexico. Dole is the front runner. Once known chiefly for his astringent wit and confident, almost arrogant intelligence, the three-term Senator in recent years has played a more statesmanlike role. "I'm sort of a consensus builder," he says. To the consternation of the Reagan Administration, he has pushed for tax hikes along with spending reductions as the only way to make a sizable dent in the deficit. Dole has the most serious national ambitions: he was the vice-presidential nominee in 1976, made an abortive...
...made sure the Aquia Creek sandstone used for the original mansion was the best. That stone came out of a friend's quarry in Virginia. Though Washington was in Philadelphia during much of the construction, he dropped in often enough to terrorize and entice Master Builder James Hoban into doing superb work. When Congress wanted to expropriate the building for the Supreme Court, Washington said no. When Congress wanted the House of Representatives in the structure, Washington put his foot down. So on a March day in 1797, when Washington came to gaze proudly on the largest house abuilding...
...British empire fades, the chief empire builder becomes Uncle Joe, and the focal point of controversy becomes Poland. Churchill has backed one Polish exile "government" and Stalin another. Now, with the Red Army sweeping across Eastern Europe, Stalin demands and then seizes total power for his puppets. Churchill's protests go for nothing. Roosevelt, weary unto death ever since the Yalta conference early in 1945, remains all too characteristically hopeful. "I would minimize the general Soviet problem as much as possible," he says in one of his last messages to Churchill, on April 11, 1945, "because these problems...
...There was no point when any of us felt we were in trouble," said Bamford, adding that the game was "a real confidence builder" coming after two easy victories over weak teams: Maine and Holy Crust...