Word: far-flung
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...conglomerate just fine, if you've got it structured just right." And he has absorbed a lot of the 19th century trader's ethos. Regarding future acquisitions, he declares, "We don't care what industry it's in, as long as it's a good buy." To keep its far-flung empire flourishing, Jardines may have picked just the right taipan...
Even as he pounded the drum of reform, Gorbachev sounded some notes of caution. Addressing the problem of simmering nationalism among the country's diverse and far-flung ethnic groups, he called for a Central Committee meeting to review policies toward the Soviet Union's 136 million non-Russians. Speaking only two days after Soviet authorities prevented most of the independence rallies in the Baltic republic of Lithuania, the General Secretary sternly declared that "any manifestations of nationalism are incompatible" with the ideal of "Soviet patriotism...
...schedules to reporters not by messenger but by facsimile machine, which can transmit a typewritten page over telephone lines in 30 seconds or less. The personal assistants of Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore and Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt are never far from their laptop computers, which they plug into telephone jacks at least once a day to exchange missives with far-flung operatives or to read the latest word from their Washington offices. When a blizzard last month prevented Robert Dole from attending a town meeting in Alexandria, Minn., the Kansas Republican called the meeting hall from the telephone...
...Huntington production is staged intelligently and sensitively by Wilson's longtime collaborator, Yale Repertory Director Lloyd Richards. The Piano Lesson, however, lacks cohesion. Wilson's material, as rich and compelling as it is, is too far-flung and perhaps too ambitious...
...Juan, has targeted at least seven organizations that ship some 250 aliens to Puerto Rico a month. He claims that one man, Ramon Emilio Santana Camacho, is responsible for transporting some 30,000 Dominicans to Puerto Rico and New York since 1976. Although authorities have largely dismantled his far-flung empire, Camacho, who is something of a folk hero in the Dominican Republic, remains free and, according to Monge, is diversifying his operations into cocaine smuggling...