Word: expression
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sanford Weill, chairman of Travelers Group, is known to keep reams of business information in his head--for instance, precisely when he stomped out as president of American Express after clashing with then-CEO James Robinson. "August 1985," he says, correcting a reporter about the time of the event. In a decade of almost nonstop dealmaking since then, Weill has not only clawed his way back but last week was being hailed as the new king of Wall Street after Travelers sealed a $9 billion deal to acquire Salomon Bros., one of the world's largest bond-trading houses. Says...
...getting the Smith Barney brokerage with it. He bought Travelers insurance in two stages when that company was reeling from bad real estate investments. In 1993 Weill achieved a measure of sweet revenge over his old employer--buying back Shearson, the retail brokerage he had sold to American Express in 1981 at the time he joined that company...
...California passed a Living Will law, allowing individuals to express their own preferences for end-of-life care, including freedom from aggressive medical therapies. In 1980, Derek Humphry founded the Hemlock Society, the largest international public advocacy group lobbying for a competent, terminally ill individual's right to physician aid-in-dying. In 1990, the Supreme Court affirmed a constitutional right to refuse unwanted medical treatment, including food and fluids, and to appoint a health care surrogate decision-maker. These milestones demonstrate the concerted policy shift towards patient autonomy and patient-centered care...
HPPS eliminated the cash-only express line, forcing everyone to wait for credit cards to be approved and checks to be filled...
Microsoft's Internet Explorer suite comes with a program called Outlook Express, and version 4.0 of Internet Explorer is due out today. It can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com/ie....