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...printer can't run AT&T, perhaps a defense contractor can. Using that logic, directors of the phone giant last week handed the top job to C. Michael Armstrong, 59, chairman of Hughes Electronics, ending one of the most embarrassing corporate head hunts in recent memory. The board tapped Armstrong three months after disconnecting AT&T president John Walter as the designated successor to the embattled Robert Allen, 62, who is stepping down as chairman and CEO. Directors said Walter, who was plucked from printer R.R. Donnelley & Sons last year, lacked the "intellectual leadership" to head the seventh largest...
Knight had similar success for another Energy Department contractor, Lockheed Martin, which understands the political byways of Washington ? and the campus connection. In 1995 and 1996, while the company was receiving extensions in its $40 million-a-year fee to manage the Oak Ridge, Tenn. research facility, it donated $50,000 to the Nancy Gore Hunger chair...
...woman who became Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on Aug. 26, 1910, the daughter of a prosperous, ethnic Albanian business contractor in Skopje, now the capital of Macedonia. When she was seven, her father Nicholas died during what may have been a Balkan ethnic brawl. She would always be silent about her early life, but she told Muggeridge she had a vocation to serve the poor from the time she was 12. At 18, Agnes joined Ireland's Sisters of Loreto and took the name Teresa in honor of the French saint Therese of Lisieux, renowned...
...achieve this goal, The Coop hired a local contractor to maintain and restore the historic architecture and detail of the Great Hall and will add a catwalk and grand staircase toward the rear for more space and greater accessibility...
HIID will continue its work in tax reform until Jan. 1 to give USAID time to choose a new contractor. The institute's contract for environmental protection is not affected...