Word: impendingness
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Boardrooms were buzzing from Bangkok to Boston last week over word of an impending alliance between industrial powerhouses Daimler-Benz and Mitsubishi. Daimler-Benz, maker of the best-selling Mercedes-Benz automobiles and a partner in the Airbus consortium, is West Germany's largest industrial group. Mitsubishi, with interests ranging...
Drexel is trying to reassure creditors that the bonuses were not doled out because of any sense of impending doom. "Believe me, nobody was shoveling money out the door because they felt the roof was caving in," says Drexel director Roderick Hills, a former chairman of the Securities and Exchange...
After 15 years of terrorist activity, Colombia's notorious M-19 guerrilla group signed a pact with the government last year and stepped back into civilian life. Former leaders Carlos Pizarro Leon-Gomez and Antonio Navarro Wolf now want to run for office in the country's March 15 municipal...
The U.S. stuck to its guns on both principle and practicality. Establishing a manpower parity sends out the wrong message, Washington contends, since U.S. forces are in Europe by the invitation of host countries and Soviet troops are occupying forces. As a practical matter, additional American forces are needed because...
One revolutionary approach to the usual research-develop-and-produce syndrome has been advocated by Aspin and backed by several experts outside the Pentagon. It is called "develop -- but wait." Perform the R. and D., in short, but go to production only if the imagined threat clearly emerges and if...