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...multimillion-dollar resort chain; in Paris. The child of Algerian Jews, Trigano fought against the Nazi occupation of France alongside Gerard Blitz, who would later found the trail-blazing retreat business. After the war, Trigano wrote for the communist newspaper L'Humanit? before starting his 30-year career as helmsman of the company that delivered mai tais and tropical sunsets to the world's middle class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

Politicians and economists are cheering, but stock traders are eyeing the exits. President Clinton Tuesday appointed Alan Greenspan to a fourth four-year term as Great Helmsman at the Fed, and while his stellar record prompted little opposition, the market appeared more concerned with his next move. Greenspan's early reappointment - his current term expires in June - frees the Fed chairman to make fiscal policy free of any concern that his job may be on the line, and that may mean an interest rate hike designed to slow the economy and head off inflation when the Fed next meets. Fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Eternal Greenspan Calm a Shaky Market? | 1/5/2000 | See Source »

...surprising decision for anyone. Wilford, after all, had the hot hand. And the easiest way for Murphy to show the world that last year was a fluke would be to replace the struggling helmsman with the up-and-coming new face. Wilford, while obviously ecstatic at his opportunity to start, says he felt sorry for his good friend Linden...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rich Linden | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...Street had seen it coming, and in New York the markets yawned. But Greenspan wasn't done running. He cut rates again on Thursday without waiting for the next Fed meeting, a dramatic move that caught Wall Street off guard. It was almost unprecedented in Greenspan's term as helmsman of the U.S. economy. If the Fed has a big red panic button, this was it: Clearly Father Greenback had seen something that couldn't wait for November 15. But what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: See Alan Run | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

TOKYO: Prime Minister Hashimoto may have left the bridge in the middle of a storm, but don't expect Tokyo to pick a strong helmsman to replace him. "Unless Japan's new prime minister is a real surprise rather than any of the likely candidates, we can expect more political chaos and not less," says TIME Tokyo bureau chief Frank Gibney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japanese PM Quits in Shame Over Elections | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

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