Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last fall, I sent New England Telephone an application for phone service on the behalf of my rooming group. They seemed like a group of compassionate people, even wishing students "every success during the upcoming academic year" in the application...
...build his own empire. Sorrell and a partner paid $676,000 for a controlling share in WPP in 1985, then used the company as an acquisition vehicle; they have bought 39 marketing and advertising firms so far. His most stunning triumph was the 1987 purchase of the JWT Group, an American conglomerate seven times the size of WPP. The $566 million deal was the first hostile takeover in the U.S. ad industry. Under WPP's control, JWT's pretax profit margin has increased from a weak 5% of sales to a respectable...
Many investors are worried that the acquisition of Ogilvy would depress WPP's earnings, since the debt assumed to complete the deal could become a burden on the company. Sorrell argues that the two agencies would complement each other. While WPP's Thompson group is strong in Japan, Ogilvy has a firm hold on the European market...
Thus the local song that boasts "Samoa, there's no place like you" rings all too true for some of the palagis, or foreigners, on the island. At American Samoa Community College, Philip Grant gamely leads Laborday Fatali and a group of other flamboyantly named students through a discussion of Rousseau and Romanticism, only occasionally thrown off by a modern sensibility ("What does self-serving mean?" "Well, the gas station is self- service"). Yet Grant, one of those gypsy scholars who move from country to country, finds Samoa considerably more alien than his last posting, in Beirut. "In Lebanon...
...strangeness is both spiced and complicated further by stubborn traces of the familiar. On Flag Day, a legal secretary suddenly re-emerges as a taupou, or ceremonial virgin. A U.S. Army man appears amid a group of spear- shaking warriors in lavalava skirts, fierce tattoos on many thighs. A former Hollywood bit actor resumes his role as the "talking chief" of Leone, leading his villagers through hymn-inflected island chants and primal dances. And then, just before Governor Peter Coleman, Congressman Eni Faleomavaega and various other dignitaries get ready to join in the final swaying dance, a village chorus sits...