Word: dede
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...Justice Department, just weeks after Christie's chief executive, Christopher Davidge, abruptly resigned. Last week Davidge was followed by the two top officials of Sotheby's, A. Alfred Taubman, the chairman and largest individual stockholder who bought the firm in 1983 and took it public in 1988, and Diana ("Dede") Brooks, its chief executive. A replacement team was hastily assembled. Former Columbia University president Michael Sovern took Taubman's role as chairman, and William Ruprecht, managing director of Sotheby's North and South America, stepped in for Brooks...
...resign as honorary chairman of the opposition Christian Democratic Union, his reputation soiled by a spreading financial scandal. In the end the statesman who counted Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev among his peers was brought down by the likes of a French wheeler-dealer nicknamed Dede the Sardine...
...announcing his resignation as honorary chairman of the party. That has only heightened speculation about just where the money may have come from--and why. Was it a donation from rich German party supporters? Or possibly a payoff from foreign businessmen? Andre Guelfi, a French businessman known as Dede the Sardine because of his ownership of a now defunct Moroccan fishing company, said he helped pass more than $40 million to the C.D.U. to help secure a contract for a German-French joint venture. He has since backtracked on many of his accusations, which are being investigated by French...
...BUSINESSMAN: Frenchman Andre Guelfi, 80, nicknamed Dede the Sardine, said he gave C.D.U. officials nearly $40 million to help win a contract...
...delighted that he [Dede] is joining the department," Wiske said, "and I'm looking forward to his leadership and the fresh perspective that he'll give to our work...