Word: founder
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...Berlioz is the founder of modern orchestration." (Music...
Sorrell's takeover of Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein, which was part of the JWT purchase, has proved more troublesome. Nine months after the deal, co- founder Dick Lord and five top executives walked out and formed a rival firm that they staffed with their former colleagues. Today both sides are mired in a court battle over the takeover and defection. Says Lord: "Martin is a man of property. He believes that the ends justify the means...
...that has long surrounded it. Control will remain in the hands of the Basel-based Sachers. The family, one of Switzerland's leading cultural benefactors, is headed by Maja Sacher, 93, and her second husband Paul, 83. Maja Sacher's first husband, Emanuel Hoffmann, son of the company's founder, died in a car crash in 1932. A prominent patron of modern art, Maja Sacher has endowed Basel's museums with works by 20th century masters. Paul Sacher, an energetic conductor, has sponsored scores by many of the century's great composers. His musical foundation holds the world's most...
...psychology of hiring waiters to how to fold napkins or operate credit-card machines. But any would-be chef faces the final test preparing and serving food. The New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vt., has set up one of its restaurants, Tubbs, in a remodeled jail. Says co-founder John Dranow: "We've been influenced by the medical-school model. Students learn better by doing than by watching...
Much of the 90-minute debate was spent discussing whether institutions of higher education should be involved with military programs. In an opening statement, Felicia A. Kornbluh '88-'89, founder of the Subterranean Review and a member of the Anti-ROTC Action Committee (ARAC), said that because "the military is made to fight wars, and not necessarily wars of defense," it does not belong on university campuses...