Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Elad Pelled, an infantry division commander, is now deputy managing director of Israel Electric Corp., the government power monopoly; ex-Brigadier Dan Tolkowsky, a former air-force commander, is managing director of Discount Bank Investment Corporation Ltd.; Chaim Herzog, a former chief of military intelligence, manages Sir Isaac Wolfson's diverse interests in Israel...
...colonel, Zalman Shalev, a former head of military communications, founded an electronics company that recorded $1,500,000 in sales last year. Another ex-colonel, Arieh Shachar, took over the money-losing government trucking company called Mifalei Tovala, promising to turn a profit within a year or close down the company. He replaced its ancient fleet of trucks and fired 70% of the headquarters staff, starting at the top "to show the workers that the reforms were just." Shachar also negotiated a new labor contract that increased the drivers' work hours by 15%, with no raise...
...Lloyd's to become an ordinary insurance company and increase its income from outside investments. But members are averse to such change. They prize the clubby atmosphere of the high marble halls where the tie that binds is mostly old school. The membership, at last count, included four former cabinet members (Hogg, Maudling, Sandys and Thorneycroft), more than 50 M.P.s, mainly Tory, Tycoons Charles Clore and Sir Isaac Wolfson, Lord Harlech, five dukes, eight marquesses, 39 earls, 90 knights and 113 baronets...
...Tushingham) takes 17 months to give birth to one baby and about 37 seconds to deliver herself of a second. All this goes on while the police (Peter Cook and Dudley Moore) fly overhead in a rusted-out patrol car suspended from the end of a helium balloon. A former officer of the volunteer army (Spike Milligan) hides in a bomb shelter, calling out,"Say, have they dropped it yet?" Nothing makes any kind of sense at all -but then neither does...
...This selection procedure, the report said, represents "a compromise" between an elected and an appointed committee. Liberal Faculty members generally favor the former method of choosing committee representatives, conservatives the latter...