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...finally, though it's a cliche, there are the people. I have friends doing ground-breaking scientific research, travelling to distant lands to save the world and touring with major orchestras...
...stakeholders include the shareholders--the owners of the company--as well as employees, suppliers, customers and local communities. But in the '80s some of these stakes were crushed in the machinery of mergers or restructuring. Cities lost powerful corporate allies, that were relegated to subsidiary status by headquarters in distant places. In industries such as textiles and steel, plant shutdowns destroyed forever the notion that the company takes care of its own. Steel towns in Pennsylvania, like Duquesne, collapsed when their blast furnaces went cold. Those were thought to be singular events, industrial catastrophes that wouldn't be repeated...
...seem relatively easy to solve. "All we require," says De la Riva, "is relaxation by the politicians, and then we can do great work together." Alas, for him and his friends, the crisis triggered by the downing of two U.S. planes in February has made that possibility seem more distant than ever...
...solid man, 6 ft. 1 in. and 208 lbs. He is polite, his yes sirs and no sirs bespeaking good breeding, a breeding that might be called hard fought. Franklin's father, always off on a crusade, was a distant if benevolent presence. The boy's rearing was left largely to his spirited mother Ruth. "Stubborn but never villainous" is her description of the result. Franklin began smoking as a child by picking up discarded butts, and it became a potent symbol of rebellion. Ruth at one point attempted aversion therapy by making him smoke a whole pack...
Edward, like many of Kennedy's Celtic charmers, is tough and fireproof. He saves his wife but discovers that the disaster has transformed her into a perpetual mourner, a woman as cool and distant as a piece of Victorian cemetery statuary. In contrast, Edward defies fate with...