Word: firm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, Harris has come a long way by being aggressive. The daughter of a railroad dining-car waiter and a civil servant mother, she finished first in her class at George Washington University Law School. She taught at Howard University Law School, joined a top Washington law firm, served on the boards of IBM, Scott Paper and Chase Manhattan, worked in Lyndon Johnson's presidential campaign and became U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. But when a liberal Senator once implied that she was a member of the privileged class, she indignantly replied: "While there may be others who forget what...
...boomtown of Borger, Texas, and went on to attend the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. In China shortly after World War II, he met his wife Ariadna, a White Russian living in Shanghai. After law school at the University of California and four years in a Wall Street law firm, Miller took a job at Textron Inc., the big Providence-based conglomerate, eventually becoming its chairman. During his 17 years running Textron, the company's annual sales grew from $383 million a year to $2.8 billion, and profits jumped from $14 million to $137 million. His spare-time interests range...
Next the ACTWU turned its ire on the New York Life Insurance Co. by announcing that it would run its own candidates for the board against Finley and New York Life's chairman R. Manning Brown Jr. A contested election would have cost the insurance firm as much as $6 million to mail ballots to its policyholders, and New York Life decided that it was not worth the fight. Stevens' Finley was again knocked off a board-this time New York Life's-and he was furious. Meanwhile, Brown, who had earlier vowed not to give...
according to the SEC, the firm in recent weeks has begun "a massive shredding of corporate documents...
...time, Olympic was managing director of a British consulting firm hired by the Ivory Coast government to screen competitors for the contract. Another $310,000 went to a company half owned by Timothee Ahoua, then and now the Ivory Coast ambassador...