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...sources said that the HMC president'stwo major actions with regard to Aeneas sincetaking over the company's helm--the revision ofthe salary structure and the creation of the boardof directors--demonstrate serious concern. Andeven before Meyer took charge, the sources said,there was growing attention paid at HMC to thepersonalities and industry-wide reputations ofAeneas' two managing partners...
...City there has been talk of giving Germany a permanent role on the Security Council -- either directly, with a seat of its own, or by establishing a European seat, which the Germans would almost certainly dominate. "What we see -- some among us with a shudder -- is Germany taking the helm in Europe," says James Rollo of London's Royal Institute of International Affairs...
...Thunder rocketed out last year, only to lose five of their last seven. QB Mitchell takes the helm from Kerwin Bell. They also have DE Tracy Rocker, and a solid defense...
...constant shuffling raised suspicion that Iacocca had no real plan for stepping down but rather, as a bemused insider put it, "wanted to beat Armand Hammer's record" for executive longevity. (Hammer died in 1990 at 92, still at the helm of Occidental Petroleum...
...really? Try telling that to Denmark, whose anthem graphically commemorates the exploits of King Christian: "His sword was hammering so fast/ Through Gothic helm and brain it passed." Or the Chinese, whose national ditty is a paean to the prospect of "using our flesh and blood to build a new Great Wall." Guatemalans are admonished never to permit "tyrants to spit in thy face." And who could forget the immortal words in the second verse of the Bulgarian national song: "Countless warriors bravely die/ For the people's sacred cause." Such a roster would be incomplete without the heady draught...