Word: carles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Norman Vincent Peale b) Carl Jung c) Gertrude Stein d) Allen Ginsberg...
...schoolchildren fell sick after drinking Coke products last June, Ivester maintained what looked like an arrogant silence for more than a week before traveling to Belgium to apologize. (The incident resulted in a 65 million-can recall.) Nor did he burnish his company's image by failing to promote Carl Ware, senior vice president for African operations, Coke's top black executive, during a high-level shuffle in October--an omission that sent Ware to the exits even as four past and present black employees were suing Coca-Cola for alleged discrimination...
This year's recipients are Carl "Larry" L. Malm '00 of Leverett House and Blue Hill, Maine; Sarun Charumilind '00 of Leverett House and Chesterfield, Missouri; Sarah D. Kalloch '00 of Kirkland House and Hamilton, Massachusetts; Charisa A. Smith '00 of Eliot House and Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and Sinead B. Walsh '00 of Winthrop House and Dublin, Ireland...
...when, at the shady sounding, acronym-needy McDonald's Biennial Worldwide Convention, then chairman Michael Quinlan announced that the company had passed the 100-billion-burgers mark and somehow missed it. Deciding to focus on the future, he advised the 25,000 franchise owners to switch to the Carl Saganesque "billions and billions." I didn't buy one word of it. So I stopped at my McDonald's on 34th Street in Manhattan, which has a 99 BILLION SERVED sign. Manager Eddie Correa said he was unfamiliar with the Biennial Edict and hadn't thought about changing the sign during...
Stein is not a performer by training. A fallen hippie Yale law graduate (with Hillary Clinton), Stein used his father's connections to get a job as a speechwriter for President Nixon (with Pat Buchanan, David Gergen and John McLaughlin), who was then under siege from, among others, Carl Bernstein, Stein's childhood next-door neighbor and Maryland public high school classmate (with Sylvester Stallone, Goldie Hawn and Connie Chung). Although some have posited him as Deep Throat, Stein has always remained a Nixon loyalist. Tapes of Nixon's resignation show Stein crying, and he insists that he was asked...