Word: corps
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...finance is underrepresented, since it was the availability of capital, as much or more than individual genius or initiative, that so often created the conditions for business success. By that measure, Drexel Burnham's Michael Milken, who raised billions for the likes of Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch and MCI Corp., should be included, notwithstanding his conviction for violating securities laws and his time spent in jail. Other financial innovators who changed the way we spend and save might also have made the list, including Dee Hock, a little-known businessman who brought the Visa credit card to prominence, and Peter...
...organized Bancitaly Corp. as a launching pad for statewide expansion. That was succeeded in 1928 by TransAmerica Corp., a holding company with wide interests in financial services, including some overseas banks. That same year he bought Bank of America in New York, one of the city's oldest lending institutions...
...company is Hobart Corp., part of an international conglomerate with sales of $2.4 billion in 1997. Hobart produces commercial equipment for food preparation. Ever since the Great Depression, the company had operated a plant in Dayton. But in 1995, Hobart pulled up stakes and moved 30 miles to the north, to Piqua, Ohio, which offered $2 million in incentives. In July, the company informed its 66 hourly employees in Dayton, many of whom had worked at the plant for years--their average age was 52--that their jobs would be terminated in three days. According to the suit, Hobart staffed...
...stock market can make anyone look bad--even a billionaire investor like Laurence Tisch, who will step down as CEO of Loews Corp. by year's end. Shareholders may wish he had stepped down sooner, given his errant attempts to time the market over the past two years. Tisch, a contrarian, is smarter than most. After oil prices receded in the early '80s, his company bought oil tankers and drilling rigs at scrap-metal prices and later sold them for a tenfold gain. But he's lost big betting the company's cash against the Standard & Poor...
...There are now 350 jobs in Baxter Springs, Kans., and there are 150 new employees--not transfers from other facilities. Baxter Springs' economy has grown, and the town has attracted even more new business. Everyone appreciates the added potential for future growth. ALDEN M. COHEN Vice President, Communication Bagcraft Corp. of America Chicago...