Word: businessman
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Joseph Connor, former chief of the U.S. accounting firm Price Waterhouse, last May became the first businessman ever to be put in charge of U.N. administration and management. He has begun rigorous management-training and performance-evaluation systems for Secretariat employees, which could be the first steps toward creating a professional international civil service in place of what now amounts to a gargantuan political-patronage system...
...wealthy businessman and friend of the governor is murdered in his home with a ceremonial axe. Corelli draws the case. Upon looking around the house, he discovers that the businessman has various collections: objects of ethnic art (like the axe), antique furniture and (class guy that he is) public hair from the women that he has bedded, which he keeps in jeweled boxes on his dresser. On one of the boxes is the Chinese character for "jade...
Stereotypes abound in "Steal Big, Steal Little." The wealthy Japanese businessman does not speak a word of English, the ditzy blond wife loves her husband no matter how badly he treats her, the greedy lawyer betrays a life-long friend for money, and the crass Chicagoan has a kind heart underneath all the bluster, not to mention the happy migrant workers who are never without a stupid grin on their faces...
...engulf and to disgorge--actually be reconciled in today's business world? Richard D'Aveni, a professor of corporate strategy at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business, sees plenty of room for deals along the lines of both the Time Warner merger and the AT&T breakup. (Businessman Donald Perkins and former U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills sit on both boards, which voted for conflicting goals.) D'Aveni discerns an intrinsic cycle: poorly conceived mergers turning into spin-offs. The aim is to dominate a market, as Microsoft rules software, Delta dominates the Atlanta airport and Chrysler...
...test scores were so high that white officers suspected cheating and made them take the tests again. Still, only five out of the first 13 trainees survived the rigorous course and the corrosive racism of some white flight instructors. Former Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and prominent New York City businessman Percy Sutton were among the 992 African Americans who eventually passed through Tuskegee--only to discover that they were still second-class citizens in the eyes of the military. The Tuskegee units were continually passed over for combat assignments. According to Charles ("Chief") Anderson, who headed the group of African...