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...held fire sales, their VC backers found themselves with little to return to their own investors. As many as 80% of Europe's incubators and independent early-stage venture firms are expected to disappear by next year. Jean-Bernard Schmidt, founder of Paris' Sofinnova venture capital firm and chairman-elect of the European Venture Capital Association, points out that since the venture market in Europe is far less mature than in the U.S., the Continent has a far greater share of these young funds in trouble. Meanwhile, captive funds - those that are owned by a single, usually financial, institution...
George Rathjens, chairman-elect of the Council for a Lisable World: Robert Hass, deputy for European Affairs in the State Department, and Leslie Gelb. New York Times National Security Correspondent and former State Department official in the Carter Administration, also addressed the delegates, most whom were pro-freeze...
...roles. Increasing numbers of wives have simply abandoned home and hearth, leaving husband and children to fend for themselves (TIME, Dec. 20). There are other factors too. Since increasing numbers of women work, the traditional rationale for giving women custody now applies to fewer cases. Ralph Podell, chairman-elect of the American Bar Association's family law section, reports that more men are asking for custody and more judges are granting...
...When he left Cambridge University in 1945 to join Courtaulds Ltd., Physicist Sir Alan Wilson, 56, was best known as an expert in quantum theory. He did so able a job of reorganizing the British textile giant's research program that he was named chairman-elect of the company last October...
...impressive a board of advisers as any corporation going-former Senator William Benton, Economist Beardsley Ruml, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna M. Rosenberg, Psychologist George Stoddard, President Robert Hutchins of the Fund for the Republic, and Social Scientist Ralph Tyler. Last week it was sporting another big name: Chairman-elect Adlai E. Stevenson...