Word: donalds
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Speaking after Tutu, journalist Donald J. Woods--whose friendship with the late Black South African leader Stephen Biko is the subject of Cry Freedom--said the symbolic effect of Harvard's divestment would be even more important than its impact on the country's economy...
...decade since S.I.'s death, the empire has grown to a value of around $11 billion -- a family fortune that may be second only to the Mars candy clan in the U.S. At the newspapers and cable-TV holdings run by Newhouse's son and co-heir Donald, the same unobtrusive style still prevails. And while Hearsts, Knights, Ridders, Chandlers and other media dynasts have mostly dropped out of day-to-day management of their inheritances, about two dozen Newhouses work at properties ranging from the Newark Star-Ledger (circ. 470,000) and the Cleveland Plain Dealer (circ...
...prestigious and influential, if less lucrative, magazine and book divisions run by Donald's older brother S.I. Jr., known as Si, the shadowy Newhouse style has been supplanted by a blaze of glitz and color and, increasingly, by tumult and frenzy. In recent years scarcely a month has gone by without an uproar at one or another of what has grown to 20 U.S. and 41 non-U.S. magazines, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, Details, HG and Self, every one of which has had one or more top editors ousted and design face-lifts imposed...
Meanwhile, Congress has been swamped with voter complaints that lenders have been unfairly rejecting loan requests. Says Senate Banking Committee chairman Donald Riegle Jr. of Michigan, who plans to hold June hearings on the growing scarcity of funds: "Some kind of credit contraction is going on. It is probably most notable in real estate, but there is more and more evidence that it is spilling over to small business in general...
...DONALD RIEGLE (1994). Fifty-five percent of voters say they'll think twice about re-electing the Michigan Democrat, who was a leading member of the banking committee during the crisis...