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...boss is by turns charming and demanding. Extremely demanding. His edict to top managers: "I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make it a $5 million mistake if you have to make one." Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, who helped rescue New York City from insolvency in 1975, sums it up: "Lee is a man who can instill leadership in a crisis. He knows his business from front bumpers to back ends. He is the right man at the right time...
...edict that decreed the postponement until tonight of the Beanpot's opening round was send out from the Garden around noon. According to Beanpot publicity director Joel Perlmutter, tournament organizers considered postponing the event as soon as the storm began, and decided for sure in midmorning when the snowfall projections increased...
...take drastic measures to fill the army's ranks. On Nov. 1, Khomeini told all students and civil servants to report to conscription centers and join up. "Where they are needed," the Ayatullah said, "combat duty takes precedence over everything else." Even childhood. Khomeini also issued an edict that no longer requires children to obtain parental consent before going to war. Regular troops have been telling of "tearful boys" in their midst, and a twelve-year-old Iranian prisoner of war interviewed on Iraqi television said that two of his friends were shot by Islamic Guards while attempting...
...frantic attempt to find stopgap solutions, the government of Mexico's outgoing President threw a one-two punch that has now transformed this confusion into surreal chaos. It issued a vague edict forbidding Americans to take home certain foods from Mexican markets, and it imposed ill-conceived currency restrictions designed to stem the tide of money flowing out of the country. The result: border towns on both sides are suffering even more...
...ventures and often subsidized much of their financing. American firms, on the other hand, have been a little more hesitant. Memories of past hostile policies by the Indian government still linger in American corporations. IBM, for example, pulled out of India in 1977 rather than comply with an official edict requiring the company to relinquish 60% of the ownership of its Indian operations...