Word: buts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The predawn scheduling of the operation was meant to minimize publicity and protests. But reporters got wind of it and watched through the windows of Phoenix House as Vietnamese shouted and cried, some holding up makeshift signs saying WE'D RATHER DIE THAN GO BACK TO VIET NAM. No force...
"Everyone was calm and went quietly," announced a Hong Kong government spokesman. But within 48 hours, more than 6,000 Vietnamese boat people expressed their outrage in protests at three Hong Kong detention centers.
For nine months advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi has admitted that it was enduring a rough year. But when chairman Maurice Saatchi faced investment analysts in the company's luxurious London boardroom two weeks ago, the news was far worse than anyone had feared. After 19 years of uninterrupted growth, Saatchi...
Louis-Dreyfus has no background in advertising but has earned a hot reputation as a financial whiz. His chief accomplishment is the brisk turnaround of IMS. The company, capitalized at $232 million when Louis-Dreyfus took over in 1982, was sold to Dun & Bradstreet last year for $1.7 billion.
Until the brothers hit the apex of the ad world, no one questioned their claim to have a grand strategy that would turn their empire into a finely tuned global machine. But the first crack in that facade occurred in January 1986, just two months before the purchase of Bates...