Word: dresser
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...told him why I wasn't here for his birth and how it was something that I just had to do as a soldier," Perez says. Someday he'll tell what he did in the Shah-i-Kot Valley to earn the Bronze Star that sits on his dresser. "I'll tell him war isn't as glamorous as some people think it is," Perez says. "And I'll tell him I hope he doesn't join the infantry...
...seller in Italy?and he published a well-received biography of the grande tennis dame Suzanne Lenglen. He was also once named Italy's playwright of the year. The son of a Lombard oil magnate, Clerici is a bon vivant of the first order. Surely the most dapper dresser in the history of sports journalism, he owns homes throughout the world and has been known to spend off-days at tournaments buying fine art. As he recently told his bosses at Tele+ when negotiating his contract, "I'm rich in an embarrassing...
...sued by Halliburton shareholders and the conservative activist group Judicial Watch. The allegation: that Halliburton, while Cheney was CEO, greased the books to boost the firm's flagging fortunes. Its decline was due in part to Cheney's signature strategic move--Halliburton's merger with Dresser Industries in 1998, when Dresser was about to be buried under asbestos-contamination lawsuits. Halliburton remains burdened with the liability of more than 200,000 suits and as of last year was on the hook for $125 million in settlements. Its stock has fallen from nearly $60 to about $13.50, imperiling the retirement savings...
...more damning criticism of Cheney is that he was a lousy CEO. He spent $7.7 billion to merge with rival Dresser in 1998, knowing that one of its former subsidiaries, Harbison-Walker, was the target of manifold legal claims from employees who worked making refractory bricks. Halliburton officials believed that Dresser was indemnified. But when Harbison filed for Chapter 11, tort lawyers came after Halliburton. Cedric Burgher, Halliburton's vice president for investor relations, points out that, even with the asbestos claims, an Austrian company paid nearly $600 million for Harbison-Walker in 1999. Says Burgher: "Nobody foresaw this." Lawyers...
...sued by Halliburton shareholders and the conservative activist group Judicial Watch. The allegation: that Halliburton, while Cheney was CEO, greased the books to boost the firm's flagging fortunes. Its decline was due in part to Cheney's signature strategic move-Halliburton's merger with Dresser Industries in 1998, when Dresser was about to be buried under asbestos-contamination lawsuits. Halliburton remains burdened with the liability of more than 200,000 suits and as of last year was on the hook for $125 million in settlements. Its stock has fallen from nearly $60 to about $13.50, imperiling the retirement savings...