Word: clausen
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...would succeed A.W. Clausen, the former BankAmerica chairman, as president of the World Bank when his five-year term expired on June 30? For months, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker was touted for the job, as was Labor Secretary William Brock. Last week the guessing game finally ended as the Reagan Administration named Barber Conable, 63, a highly regarded former Republican Congressman from New York, as its candidate to head the international development institution...
...Brisbane last week. Latham promises he would match Howard's record on the economy while building a "ladder of opportunity" for all Australians through his commitment to education, health care and a more enlightened social policy. We'll soon know if the voters wish to climb on. - By Lisa Clausen Going Green RUSSIA After years of deliberation, the Cabinet of President Vladimir Putin endorsed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change and sent...
...days after Oprah's announcement, the Today show said it would start a monthly club of its own. USA Today and Live with Regis and Kelly soon followed, and last week Good Morning America jumped into the literary fray, announcing its first title, Ann Packer's The Dive from Clausen's Pier. Though all tout Winfrey as the book-club queen, each media outlet has tried hard to distinguish itself from her--and from one another. --By Harriet Barovick...
...necessary to psyche out and distract her opponents by clipping them during warm-ups and using mental tactics to win. Cohen's lack of sportsmanship in her zest to be No. 1 leaves the viewer wondering whether it is cunning or ability that brings home the gold. MARJORIE A. CLAUSEN Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Circus in Junagadh, India, when his left hand is chewed off by a famished lion. The accident, caught on tape and rebroadcast repeatedly by Wallingford's all-news cable network, makes the victim luridly famous and an object of sympathy to millions of female viewers. One of them, Doris Clausen of Green Bay, Wis., goes so far as to offer her husband Otto's left hand, in the event of his death, as a replacement for Wallingford's. Sure enough, Otto accidentally shoots himself dead on the night of the 1998 Super Bowl, and his hand is flown to Boston...