Word: creation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dominguez says he has already discussed structural reforms and projects, which include the creation of a student center, with Dean of Students Archie C. Epps. (Epps says he has discussed plans with a number of candidates and is not endorsing a candidate or ticket...
...remarkable editorial in defense of careers in the business world (Dec. 3). I did, however, find these letters particularly amusing in light of a large picture in the very same edition of The Crimson, a shot of Bill and Melinda Gates at a press conference announcing the creation of a $100-million fund to provide vaccinations for children in third-world nations...
...opinion of Paul Bennett, a retail architect who has designed shops for DKNY and Anne Klein. "Now the design has to be more welcoming, more intimate," he says. Bennett, who is working on shops for Calvin Klein's CK division, has helped popularize the concept of "zoning"--the creation of a series of small spaces within a store, which provide the customer with the homey sense of roaming from room to room. "If I do a good job," says Bennett, "the customer will have an emotional connection to the store...
Like Rockefeller, Morgan scorned competition as wasteful and ran afoul of federal trustbusters who broke up his railroad holding company, Northern Securities, in the early 1900s. The apex of Morgan's power came in 1901 with the creation of U.S. Steel, the first billion-dollar corporation. This was followed by International Harvester, the farm-equipment trust, and the International Mercantile Marine, the North Atlantic shipping cartel. In fact, Morgan presided over so many large-scale industrial consolidations that he recast the banker's role from that of handmaiden to master of industry...
...Disney endured the hard times any worthwhile success story demands. It was not until he moved to Los Angeles and partnered with his shrewd and kindly older brother Roy, who took care of business for him, that he began to prosper modestly. Even so, his first commercially viable creation, Oswald the Rabbit, was stolen from him. That, naturally, reinforced his impulse to control. It also opened the way for the mouse that soared. Cocky, and in his earliest incarnations sometimes cruelly mischievous but always an inventive problem solver, Mickey would become a symbol of the unconquerably chipper American spirit...