Word: chaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American space program has become a kind of monument that we have bequeathed to future generations and the other peoples of our planet. It is a homage to humility and hope, a promise, like great art or science, that we can escape, that we can loose the bonds that chain us to ourselves and soar. The rockets are soaring again. But they're not going anywhere...
...Safeway -- shaken up by his Dart Group (1987 revenues: $406 million), based in Landover, Md., has earned Haft and his eldest son Robert, 35, Dart's president, a reputation as two of the most feared raiders on the roiling retail scene. Just ask the 2,257-store Kroger grocery chain...
...onetime Washington pharmacist, Herbert Haft started the Dart discount- drugstore chain in 1952 and built it into a 74-store firm with annual revenues of $283 million. So expert was he at keeping costs (and, some say, service) to a minimum that after he sold the chain to its operating managers in 1984 for $160 million, the new owners took out newspaper ads to inform customers that the stores were no longer owned by the Hafts...
...staff as the effort expanded, Sasso just worked around them, relying on new, more seasoned hands that he recruited. As a result, there are in effect two campaign hierarchies: the paper structure and the de facto one reporting to Sasso. Even though Baker might blanch at such chain-of-command chaos, a tendency to paper over personnel problems is typical of presidential campaigns but can be near fatal in a President...
...This cannot be allowed to happen. The chain of conflict settlement generated by Afghanistan must not be allowed to break," Shevardnadze said...