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...before the purchase of Bates, when longtime finance chief Martin Sorrell departed to start his own agency. Sorrell, who had grown restive as a Saatchi subordinate, has since assembled an agency group, WPP, with annual revenues of $1.2 billion. Close observers of Saatchi & Saatchi date the firm's financial drift from Sorrell's departure. Says a marketing executive in London: "He guided them. When he left, they did not know...
...became an Oscar-winning film, Manuel Puig portrayed how enforced intimacy can impel people to enter each other's psyches. Mystery of the Rose Bouquet, now at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, explores the same phenomenon. This time the setting is a hospital in Argentina, and the characters who drift into each other's dreamscapes are women -- an old contrary patient, rich and autocratic (Anne Bancroft), and a middle-aged nurse whose outward cheer belies a lifetime of thwarted opportunity and scant satisfaction (Jane Alexander...
Atomic clocks are the world's most accurate timepieces and have important applications in navigation and communication systems. These clocks have also been used to make direct measurements of continental drift, coordinate astronomical observations and test the ability of earth's gravity to slow down time. (It does so at the rate of a second every 10,000 years...
...other words, Radcliffe's drift out of the undergraduate scene and towards greater prominence on the graduate and post-graduate study level could make it a stronger institution in the future...
Environmentalists praised Japan's actions but noted that the reduction in drift-net use was much less sweeping than the ivory ban. Said New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer: "Any drift netting in the South Pacific is unacceptable...