Word: carling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AFTER READING YOUR REPORT ON CARL Lindner, the Chiquita Brands banana tycoon who showers money on members of Congress to get favorable free-market trade for bananas [BUSINESS, Jan. 22], I have concluded that the U.S. is not a democracy. In a democracy the people rule through their elected representatives: one man, one vote. Not so in the U.S. (or in any number of other countries). The basic idea is more like: $10,000, one vote! The electorate chooses certain people. These then go on to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars for doing what certain companies and associations want...
...Cortege," a book of poetry written by Carl Phillips '81, has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle award...
...thought it was a very interesting ceremony because you heard a lot of history of the prize," said Howbert who chose Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot as his award book...
...said that if the handover is not deferred, many Serbs will abandon the city, "and those who stay might organize armed resistance." The day before he spoke, one or more Serbs fired an antitank rocket that hit a streetcar in downtown Sarajevo, killing a 55-year-old woman. But Carl Bildt, civilian administrator of the peace accords, insists the transfer of power will go ahead...
...story might have been just another ho-hum item in the trade newspapers, except for a striking fact. One company--and one man--stood to gain more than anyone else from the exercise in U.S. trade pressure. The man is Carl Lindner, 76, a Cincinnati, Ohio, real estate, insurance and banana tycoon who likes to boast of his friendships with U.S. Presidents and sometimes blusters about what his political connections can do for him. For more than two years, Lindner has showered money on some of the biggest names in Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike. At the same time, Lindner...