Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firm in which Donovan served as executive vice president before his Cabinet appointment, had defrauded the New York City Transit Authority of $7.4 million on a contract to construct a subway tunnel. Schiavone was obliged to give 10% of the work to a minority-owned enterprise. The enterprise it chose was Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp., a firm set up by New York State Senator Joseph Galiber, who is black, and William (Billy the Butcher) Masselli, who has been identified by the FBI as a Mafia soldier. Merola charged that Jo-Pel was a mere front and that Schiavone...
Contra terrorism, designed and paid for by this country, killed Benjamin Linder, a young engineer living in Nicaragua ((WORLD, May 11)). Linder was working on a much needed rural electrification project. He chose to help rather than exploit his neighbors to the south. That, unfortunately, made him a "Communist" in the eyes of the contras, and they murdered...
Porter says companies either chose the wrong businesses or overspent for them. He gives low marks to CBS, which had shed 87% of the businesses it acquired in the 30-year period; and RCA, now a unit of General Electric, which had dropped 80%. Why do so many executives diversify? Porter shrugs, saying, "They're drawn like moths to the flame...
...Japanese company. The BMWs were almost casually displayed in large showrooms that also contained such disparate products as imported cameras and audio equipment. Convinced that sales could be much higher, BMW made the bold decision to buy the dealerships and start a full-scale Japanese subsidiary. The company chose Yoji Hamawaki to direct its new offensive. He is a marketing whiz who spent 14 years selling Kawasaki motorcycles in the U.S. before moving to BMW Japan as president...
Chun apparently chose to act in April at least in part because the opposition was in disarray. Unwilling to compromise on the issue of direct presidential elections, Kim Young Sam and his primary opposition partner, Kim Dae Jung, broke with the New Korea Democratic Party and formed a new group, the Reunification Democratic Party. Most antigovernment legislators decided to follow suit, quickly making the R.D.P. the primary opposition party, with 67 seats in the 276-member National Assembly. But the regrouping nonetheless served to splinter Chun's critics further...