Word: father-in-law
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...educated at state schools instead of Eton or Harrow, graduated from the University of London rather than Oxford or Cambridge. Weinstock joined General Electric-no kin to the U.S.'s G.E.-in 1961 when G.E.C. bought out Radio & Allied Holdings, an electronics firm founded by his father-in-law...
...From Red to Black. Because his father-in-law's holdings made him G.E.C.'s biggest stockholder, Weinstock soon became managing director. Since that time he has ruthlessly turned the stagnant company around. Unprofitable heavy-equipment divisions have been sold off, red-inked offices closed, personnel trimmed, including a cut in the headquarters office force from 2,000 to 200. Weinstock set up new accounting procedures to monitor G.E.C.'s progress, and executives who did not measure up to his operating standards were promptly fired or allowed to resign. In five years, G.E.C.'s earnings quadrupled...
...then hustled the three men off to jail. Last month Duvalier dismissed Dominique from the army "for the good of the service," and ordered his son-in-law to return to Haiti to stand trial for "desertion, mutiny and treason." Dominique is not likely to obey, for his father-in-law is convinced that he was the man behind the April bombings and the ringleader of a planned insurrection...
Playing her first grown-up role, Hayley Mills is outstanding in a cast of seasoned performers. Hayley's father-in-law on film is her real-life father, John Mills; beery-voiced and bleary-eyed, he once again demonstrates his ability to breathe life into any character he plays. This time he gives a brilliant full-length portrait of a proletarian father who tries to reach his children but who cannot touch them without giving hurt. At the end, when his son asks his advice for the first time, the old man breaks down and cries. The scene might...
...with the shadows of the night." He prompted a two-hour recital of tributes by Haiti's leading politicians, soldiers, scholars, businessmen and civil servants. He arranged a delegation of 2,000 uniformed schoolchildren, a parade of uniformed soldiers and, as the ultimate tribute to his new father-in-law, a massive replay of Haiti's carnival celebrations, which usually end with the beginning of Lent...