Word: chairman
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...remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black,'" he said...
McCain hit the streets. In the 110[degree] Arizona summer heat, he went door to door, block by block, meeting people, wowing them with his easy charm and his great story. He told voters he had served in Washington, how his relationship with Armed Services chairman John Tower had helped bring a contract to build helicopters to a company in the First District. In the course of the slog, he contracted skin cancer and wore through three pairs of shoes, inspiring his wife to bronze the third...
Empowered by Bove's bravery, I called Nancy Izquierdo at McDonald's corporate communications, who told me the company stopped counting on April 14, 1994, 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...
...Hampshire, but he cannot take victory for granted in Iowa, where being organized counts for more on caucus night than doing well in early polls, and where Forbes is dumping huge sums of money into the most sophisticated campaign organization in state history. "No question," says Iowa G.O.P. chairman Kayne Robinson, "Forbes is going to turn out a lot of people on caucus night." A loss or a weak victory in Iowa, followed by a McCain upset in New Hampshire, is the scenario that keeps Bush's team up at night...
Among the most talked about is the Attackers Business School. Founded by Kenichi Ohmae, an illustrious Tokyo business figure who has dabbled in politics, Attackers offers a six-month course with guest lectures by star entrepreneurs like Softbank's Masayoshi Son and Masahiro Origuchi, the 38-year-old chairman of Goodwill Group, a prospering new agency for temporary workers. "These are the Michael Dells of Japan," says Ohmae. "The bright ones are jumping off the old companies, which are going to end up destroyed...