Word: bulova
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...likens to "unfrying an egg" - but it doesn't call for widening them either. Creating bike lanes and crosswalks will help make the area less inhospitable to nondrivers. But what happens if Tysons doesn't bulk up enough to wipe out the sprawl? That won't happen, says Sharon Bulova, chairwoman of the Fairfax County board of supervisors. Enough landowners have already detailed their visions and are simply waiting for the official go-ahead in October to start submitting rezoning applications. And if the economy slows down the redevelopment? "Then it waits," says Bulova. "You don't adopt...
Vice President for Finance Ann E. Berman was named to the board of directors of Loews Corporation on Tuesday. Loews Corporation is a holding company that wholly or partially owns a wide-range of companies that include Bulova, an American watchmaker, Loews Hotels, a luxury hotel operator, and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, natural gas transporters and storers. Berman joins Joseph L. Bower, David professor of business administration, on the Loews Board of Directors. Bower was elected to the board in 2001. Berman is also on the board of directors of the Harvard Management Company, the University’s endowment management...
...Somehow - after the desperate agitation of the dress rehearsal - the live show was always good, always right. Now it was 8 p.m. Bulova Watch time, and, says Houseman, "At that instant, quite regularly week after week, with not one second to spare, the buffoonery stopped. Suddenly out of chaos, the show emerged - delicately poised, meticulously executed, precise as clockwork, smooth as satin." No one doubts that the show?s success was due to the commanding, seductive man standing on a platform above all the rest. "At the start of every broadcast," Herrmann recalled, "Orson was an unknown quantity...
...moves. In 1973 Loews bought a substantial share of Equity Funding just before the insurance company fell apart in the wake of a scandal that involved selling fraudulent insurance policies. Loews suffered a pretax loss of $3 million on its investment. Another ill-timed move was the acquisition of Bulova Watch in 1979, which proved a money-losing division for Loews until...
...dance partner CBS wanted. The entertainment company announced last week that it had invited Tisch, 62, the billionaire chairman of Loews, to join the CBS board of directors. In addition, Loews, a New York-based conglomerate that owns a hotel chain, sells insurance and manufactures Kent cigarettes and Bulova watches, will increase its stake in CBS from 11.7% of the network's stock to as much as 25%. CBS was emphatic that the deal with Tisch was entirely friendly. "A mutual love affair," said Senior Vice President William Lilley III. "We want this guy. We welcome this guy." The partnership...