Word: flagships
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Karl W. Deutsch, Stanfield professor of international peace, said the University should divest because it is considered “a flagship in the U.S. and the rest of the world...
DIED. JOEL DEAN, 73, whose fancy SoHo food store, Dean & DeLuca, made epicures of American shoppers; of a staph infection; in New York City. In 1976 he quit a publishing job to open an upscale market with his friend Giorgio DeLuca. It became a destination for food lovers, the flagship of the 19-store chain and a thriving catalog and Web business...
Getting The Message If the Russian media still needed a signal on how it would fare during President Vladimir Putin's second term, it came in loud and clear last Tuesday. Close to midnight, Russia's NTV television station abruptly fired star newsman Leonid Parfyonov and canceled his flagship Sunday night show, Namedni (The Other Day), which had run for 11 years. Two days earlier, the program had carried an exclusive interview with the widow of Chechen separatist Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, killed in Qatar last February, allegedly by two Russian agents now on trial in Doha . NTV ordered Parfyonov...
...Will Get Yukos? What happens when a company can't pay its bills but is legally barred from selling its parts? Ask fallen oil giant Yukos, the erstwhile flagship of Russia 's economy. "We can expect bankruptcy before the end of 2004," Yuri Beilin, vice chairman of Yukos' board, announced last week, after a Moscow court upheld a Tax Ministry demand that Yukos must pay $3.5 billion in alleged back taxes for 2000. Another court upheld a previous ruling that froze Yukos' Swiss bank accounts worth $5 billion...
...city's only major industry, tourism?has been the exclusive province of Stanley Ho, an elusive 82-year-old casino-and-property tycoon. His company, Sociedade de Turismo e Divers?es de Macau (STDM), has not kept gaming operations in step with the times. The Lisboa hotel and casino, the flagship of 12 Macau gambling houses owned and operated by Ho, opened in 1970, and years of hard use are reflected in the venue's shopworn carpets and smoky, musty atmosphere. "The old casinos are just all tables for you to gamble," says Gigi Santos, a Filipina living in Macau...