Word: helming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more pleased with the company's progress than Chairman Roberto Goizueta, 54. Says he: "My job is not to be right. It is to produce results." The Cuban-born executive, trained as a chemist, has generated criticism aplenty since he took the helm in 1980. Some of that controversy began well before he tampered with Merchandise 7X, the secret Coke formula that has been kept under corporate lock and key ever since the soft drink's invention...
Harvard's Butt, then in his last season at the helm for Rutgers. Butt will get his shot against the Tigers this year...
With Modai at the helm, the unity government revitalized the inflation-racked country's economy. Israel implemented austere wage-price controls that trounced on the more than 400 percent inflation each year, lowering it to a bearable 20 percent. For the first time in a decade, 61 percent of the Israeli public approved of the government's economic policy, according to a poll by the Smith Research Center. Only the Labor-Likud combo can take credit for such effective fiscal policy...
...Secretary of the party last March 11, Gorbachev has been reshaping the power structure of the Soviet Union. He has broken the back of high-level cronyism that flourished for nearly 20 years under former Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev, until his death in 1982. The new man at the helm has given fair warning that he intends to wean the country from deeply ingrained habits, including alcoholism, corruption and sloth. Gorbachev's speech this week will show the direction in which he intends to lead his country...
Harvard Head Coach Joe Bernal, who witnessed only his fifth loss against 84 victories in nine seasons at the helm, remained optimistic about his team's chances during the rest of the season despite the defeat...