Word: hanks
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Judging from his daily routine, you'd hardly know that Hank Greenberg's life has been turned inside out. Sure, he works in a makeshift office on Park Avenue, with boxes piled as deep as the lawyers outside his door and with the nasty business of potential indictments--not insurance--front of mind. But the man who over four decades built and ran American International Group, the global insurance giant, is as focused as ever. He still manages two AIG offshoots, Starr International and C.V. Starr, investment firms that control billions of dollars of AIG stock. He's a regular...
...chairman of the Asia Society and chairman of the U.S.-China Business Council, and creating and chairing the International Business Leaders' Advisory Council in Shanghai. The Chinese remain so enamored of Greenberg that this year they honored him with their prestigious Marco Polo Prize for promoting Sino-American relations. "Hank Greenberg is perhaps the best known and most admired American businessman at both top government and top business levels in [India and China]," says Peter G. Peterson, who was an economic adviser to Richard Nixon and has known Greenberg for years...
...moved to a dairy farm near the Catskill Mountains of New York. On the farm, he had daily chores that included milking the cows twice a day. Greenberg soon proved his talents and his competitive drive. He was a starting football player--his athletic ability earned him the nickname Hank, after the baseball great of that era with the same name. He quit school to go to war in 1942 and, after his battalion landed on Omaha Beach under fire, went on to liberate the Dachau concentration camp. After the war, he finished high school supported only...
...Caps is not the right word, nor is quota—the language we use is ‘expectation,’” says Princeton Associate Dean of the College Hank Dobin. “The expectation is no more than 35 percent of grades in courses will be in the A-range and that no more than 55 percent on independent work—that means junior papers and senior theses—[will be] in the A-range...
...Caps is not the right word, nor is quota—the language we use is ‘expectation,’” says Princeton Associate Dean of the College Hank Dobin. “The expectation is no more than 35 percent of grades in courses will be in the A-range and that no more than 55 percent on independent work—that means junior papers and senior theses—[will be] in the A-range...