Word: hyperfast
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Dates: during 1988-1988
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TECHNOLOGY: All aboard the maglev, the levitating, hyperfast train of the future...
...turbulence of the times may have prompted Jardines to turn to a hyperfast-tracking American as the new taipan. Born in Massapequa, N.Y., Powers graduated from Yale, where he played football, and got a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1974. He began his career with the blue- chip Manhattan law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, then worked as a money manager for the Ford Foundation and as an investment banker for James D. Wolfensohn Inc. At Wolfensohn, Powers put together several deals for Simon Keswick, the outgoing taipan...
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