Word: chaining
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DIED. Samuel I. Newhouse, 84, newspaper publisher who built the U.S.'s third largest chain (daily circ. 3.2 million); of a stroke; in Manhattan. A shy 5 ft. 2 in. dynamo who said that not being noticed "is the advantage of being a shrimp," Newhouse got big in newspapers quietly. Beginning in 1922, he acquired a succession of rundown papers and turned them into a string of profit makers that stretched from Alabama to Oregon. In the 1950s he started buying already lucrative properties, among them Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue. His family-owned dominion...
About 50 department stores in the U.S. and Canada have installed the device to reduce shoplifting and employee theft. One undisclosed East Coast chain is said to have cut the number of thefts by 37%, for a saving of $600,000, during a nine-month trial. The device also seems to be catching on with other businesses...
...runs a maze of companies (he has 19 in Brazil alone). His flagship firm, National Bulk Carriers, operates one of the world's largest private fleets of huge supertankers and cargo ships. He is also proprietor of an array of global enterprises, which include the Princess hotel chain in Mexico, the Bahamas and Bermuda, oil refineries and a number of savings and loan associations...
...spellbinder with crowds, Shagari, a chain-smoking, onetime science teacher, edged his two main rivals, who hinted after the election that they might challenge the results. The two were Yoruba Chieftain Obafemi Awolowo, a major architect of Nigeria's independence, and Nnamdi Azikiwe, an Ibo leader who was the nonelected President during the brief parliamentary republic. In the campaign, Shagari emphasized his experience as a minister of finance, education and other departments in previous regimes. Though once a leader of an organization that advocated "national unity" under Hausa domination, he picked an Ibo running mate. Moreover, he managed...
...larger islands in the chain, George's Island, is blessed with more than its share of history. Although it saw service in every war from the Revolution through the Second World War, George's Island and its refuge, Fort Warren, are best remembered for their role in the Civil...