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...husband William had Swiss bank accounts. The wealthy furrier had made deposits before and during the war from his home in Versoix, Switzerland. But he died in 1985 without having retrieved the funds. Then a December 1996 article in the newspaper Jewish Week listed his account at Swiss Bank Corp. At a hearing last week in New York City attended by a representative from the bank, the 89-year-old widow appealed directly for restitution. "To you, sir, I ask, rather I demand, that you tell me what happened to my husband's money...
...this for a switch? Digital Equipment Corp. is replacing computers with humans. Digital has hired 90 people to do something computers do badly: answer the damned phone. The company unplugged its automated system in Littleton, Massachusetts, where potential customers inquire about products and services. DEC is not going warm and fuzzy on us. The company made the change for the same reason it installed the automated system in the first place: to improve efficiency. "By firing the computer and bringing in live people to handle customer calls, we've dramatically increased both customer satisfaction and sales and marketing performance," says...
...with mankind and his ruthless business prowess, is the intellectual thinker for modern-day society. He knew what he wanted and was determined to achieve it. Instead of being a victim of circumstance, he turned events to his purpose. That's why he is today the ceo of Microsoft Corp., the world's richest man and perhaps the modern-day Napoleon of the technological world. But I wonder, Is Bill Gates as vulnerable as Napoleon was? MATHEW THURING Glen Waverley, Australia Your story on Gates resembled an episode from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Such details as an income...
...corporation is a subsidiary of Just-A-Start Corp., a non-profit company that has guaranteed no new rent increases for the next two years and has assured long term afford-ability for the low-and moderate-income tenants of the building...
Mediated by GSE lecturer Bob Schwartz, the panel included Meier; Ellen Guiney, director of the Boston Plan for Excellence; Sol Hurwitz, president of the New York Committee on Economic Development; Ron Wolk, publisher and editor of Education Week, and Ronn Robinson, corporate director of education policy for Boeing Corp...