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...blame my parents. They gave me the Fisher-Price Junior Radiologist kit for my fourth birthday. During third grade, they withheld my dessert until I abandoned my ambition to be an astronaut. Lately, they have forwarded articles to my dorm about lawyers who kill themselves...
...Professor of Law Roger D. Fisher '43, who teaches one of the largest courses on campus--General Education 147, "Coping With International Conflict"--discussing the same rally...
...notable fight, however, when it assisted Paramount Communications in its failed $12.2 billion hostile bid for Time Inc. last year on the eve of the company's planned merger with Warner Communications.) Under Chairman S. Parker Gilbert, 56, the stepson of co-founder Harold Stanley, and President Richard Fisher, 53, Morgan hedged its bets by diversifying into many different fields rather than putting all its money into one or two fashionable trends. At the same time, top investment banker Robert Greenhill expanded Morgan's global reach. The firm is now engaged in businesses ranging from foreign-exchange trading in London...
...most damaging change in GM's 1984 reorganization was probably the dismantling of its two huge, parochial divisions, Fisher Body and GM Assembly. GM created in their place two integrated divisions, now called Buick- Oldsmobile-Cadillac (BOC) and Chevrolet-Pontiac-GM of Canada (CPC). The move may have made financial sense, but it diminished what automakers call brand character by centralizing design and engineering operations...
Officials arranged internships with American companies for the students, so that they could gain familiarity with the capitalist system, said Fisher...