Word: headedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"Shyness helped to make me a photographer. In high school I discovered that a camera gets you into situations where you don't really belong. Then, it was proms; now, it's the White House or the back rooms of the Kremlin." Erwitt has gained access to such figures as...
Despite the capitalization changes, Hoffmann-La Roche is certain to retain the air of genteel mystery 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...
Ten years ago, the Sacher family called in Gerber, who headed the Zurich Insurance Co., to take over Hoffmann-La Roche, whose Valium profits had tranquilized it into lethargy. He streamlined the administration, production and research and set out to find a new generation of superstar drugs. The antibiotic Rocephin...
FOOTNOTE: *Berkshire Hathaway, the holding company headed by famed investor Warren Buffett, is the priciest stock on the New York Stock Exchange. It closed last week at $6,275.
Every few years the music stops and a handful of big-name box-office attractions make a grab for one another's chairs. It happened a few years ago when Previn left the Pittsburgh Symphony; Lorin Maazel quit the Vienna State Opera and landed in Pittsburgh; Riccardo Muti, 47, conductor...