Word: cigar
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...departs, he is credited with helping build Globe to 7 million subscribers and $129 million in profit for 2002. Ying, 45, starts in May as COO of a larger telecom firm, Maxis Communications, based in Kuala Lumpur. First on the to-do list of this wine and cigar lover is integrating the recent acquisition of a rival firm, TimeCel...
...book appear more scholarly than it is. Hemley's humor is always just off target, or trite, or both. "To paraphrase Groucho Marx, we don't want to be members of a human race that would have us as members"; it almost makes sense, but for that, no cigar...
Work to close off the streets and take down utility lines began around 6 a.m. on Saturday. A little more than two hours later, nearing the designated hour for the house to start moving, Steve Stein chomps on a cigar...
Waving a Cohiba cigar in his expansive office overlooking downtown Montgomery, Ala., David Bronner talks enthusiastically about his investments: in an airline just reorganized after bankruptcy, a chain of luxury golf resorts and a group of television stations. Is he a gunslinging Sunbelt entrepreneur in the mold of Ted Turner? A hedge-fund manager? A contrarian private-equity investor? Not even close. Bronner, 58, is, in his own words, "a government bureaucrat"--the chief executive of Retirement Systems of Alabama (RSA), the pension fund for 290,000 state workers and retirees. An unabashed cheerleader for Alabama who is comfortable...
...Cigar in hand, he added, “My goal is to run Boston every year that I can. Boston gets more into the marathon than anyone. There are billboards, signs, advertisements everywhere. The crowd is unbroken, people nonstop...