Word: chairman
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...night on its final preinaugural cruise. "We're not moving, you know," one of the journalists joked. "It's just a big fan out there." Behind them, a sturdy voice piped up, "Well then, when you leave, would you turn it off?" The speaker was Michael Eisner, Disney's chairman and CEO, ever eager to make a joke about saving a buck...
Even in a bull market, individual stocks can tank and leave small shareholders devastated. Recent examples include the staggering 84% decline at small-appliance maker Sunbeam and a 66% drop at franchise operator Cendant, where just last week chairman Walter Forbes resigned under pressure. Both are widely held stocks, and, predictably, both now face scores of lawsuits that allege accounting fraud. Ultimately, the cases against both will become class-action affairs and so serve all who owned the stocks before their meltdown. But even if the suits succeed, the overwhelming odds--and this is true in any suit over...
DIED. WILLIAM MCCHESNEY MARTIN JR., 91, even-keeled Chairman of the Federal Reserve for 19 years; in Washington. Martin, who helped define the Federal Reserve as an independent entity, was known for his cautious, if not entirely dire, predictions; he described economic booms as "the party that leads to the hangover." His no-nonsense style--and occasionally unpopular stands--nevertheless managed to inspire the trust of Presidents from Truman to Nixon...
David P. Schippers, the lawyer hired by the house to help lead possible impeachment hearings against the President, is a lifelong Democrat who voted for Clinton twice. That's not the only surprising thing about his appointment as lead counsel by Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde. Schippers, a widely respected criminal-defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, has had practically nothing to do with national politics in his four-decade career. He once said he counts Thomas Jefferson among his heroes because "he never wanted to be in politics...
...serious debate about his ideas. He owes his meteoric rise exclusively to the patronage of conservative white Republicans with little interest in racial equality. They first took notice of Thomas in 1980 when he cruelly--and falsely--accused his sister of becoming dependent on welfare. As Ronald Reagan's chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, he poured disdain on affirmative action--even though it helped him get admitted to Yale Law School. When George Bush in 1991 picked Thomas to fill the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Thurgood Marshall, it was because Thomas would put a black face...