Word: german-born
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
FOUNDED The conference was inaugurated in 1971 by Klaus Schwab, 60, a German-born business professor and consummate networker, as an intimate gathering at which business leaders could chew over world problems as they rode chairlifts to some of the Alps' finest skiing...
...sailed for San Francisco, taking with him Emma Walters, a young German-born woman he had married the previous week, as well as a four-year-old, brown-skinned boy named Alexander, whom Christoph claimed to have adopted. Eventually they made their way to upstate New York, where Christoph bought a hotel and saloon in Callicoon, a small town on the Delaware River. Knowing little else about my great-grandfather, but appreciating the tales of adventure and bravery, my husband and I named our son Christof, altering the spelling slightly...
Oval is one Markus Popp, a German-born artist. Dok, a collaboration with Japanese musician Christophe Charles, is the band's fourth album. Oval's artistic medium is the compact disc itself--Popp evidently takes CDs, scratches them, samples the resultant skipping and manipulates the recordings into musical works. With Dok, Oval samples the results of a project by Charles in which he recorded bells from around the world. Popp subscribes to the social theories of the late Gilles Deleuze and Feliz Guattari and makes his art according to their ideas of rhizomes and machines. His constructions are rhizomatic: they...
...looks like a good bet that Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer will reach his audacious goal of $50 billion in sales by 2001. That would have seemed impossible when the German-born Pfeiffer replaced ousted co-founder Rod Canion in 1991, a year in which price wars and a slumping economy cut Compaq's sales 10%, to $3.2 billion. Pfeiffer applied American management techniques, slashing payrolls and streamlining manufacturing. He used the savings to launch lines of lower-priced PCs. In '96 he led the company into high-margin, big-iron computing, buying Tandem Computer for $3 billion. Tandem's machines...
Boschwitz, the German-born founder of Plywood Minnesota, faces a rematch with the unknown who unseated him in 1990 by 1% of the vote. He says Wellstone is a liberal with an itchy wallet, while he supports a conservative fiscal policy. On social issues, however, Boschwitz, in more moderate Minnesota, has distanced himself from the radical right wing of his party...