Word: flagship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agree 100 percent with the president," Gates said. "I think that it's very important--particularly at Harvard, which has a flagship role in the intellectual community in America--to expose our students to as wide as possible an array of ideas...
...countries where Coca-Cola sold a record 10 billion cases of its regular and diet sodas last year. If the help from Hollywood was cause for anxiety, what really matters for both Coke and McCann is their strong new armory of advertising for the company's flagship brand...
...expanding far afield from their core business. Sears took its eye off retailing in the 1980s to venture into stocks and bonds and real estate. As Sears diversified, highly focused retailers ate its bread and butter. Wal-Mart offered low prices, while Nordstrom boasted personal service. Now, with its flagship Sears stores in trouble, the company is getting back to basics by selling its Dean Witter brokerage house and most of its Coldwell Banker real estate firm. Sears is not the only respected name to get burned in the financial-services business; Westinghouse is painfully extricating itself from a fling...
Employees braced for a take-no-prisoners conquest. Together with president Jack Smith, 54, the former head of GM's profitable overseas operations, Smale and the board seemed poised to purge Stempel's top lieutenants and embark on a sweeping new round of layoffs to restructure the former flagship of American industry. "GM is spooked and in complete turmoil," said a longtime supplier. "It is faced with total upheaval caused by an outside force -- something that once was unthinkable...
Tigrett said he wanted to locate the flagship blues bar, set to open on Winthrop Street in less than a month, in "the epicenter for radical thought...