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...Henry Luce III, President, Henry Luce Foundation Inc.; Robert H. Malott, Chairman, EMC Corp.; Gerald C. Meyers, Chairman, American Motors Corp.; John J. Nevin, Chairman, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; Frank Pace Jr., President, International Executive Service Corps; Donald S. Perkins, Chairman, Jewel Companies Inc.; Paul C. Sheeline, Chairman, Inter-Continental Hotels Corp.; Forrest N. Shumway, Chairman, Signal Companies Inc.; John G. Smale, President, Procter & Gamble Co.; Thomas J. Watson Jr., Chairman emeritus, International Business Machines Corp.; George Weissman, Chairman, Philip Morris Inc.; and L. Stanton Williams, Chairman, PPG Industries...
...Newstour changed some long-held preconceptions. Firestone's Nevin found himself surprised at "the diversity of the four Communist countries. I had thought of them as much more monolithic." Inter-Continental Hotels' Sheeline said, "We're always told that Arabs are all brothers, with one point of view. But they have totally different points of view on many issues." The participants came away deeply concerned about the difficulties the U.S. faces. John Beckett of Transamerica deplored the lack of a "decent export policy." Former Diplomat Sol Linowitz recommended that the U.S. "get its priorities about the Soviet...
Enter Mitterrand. In an effort to wean Oueddei away from Gaddafi, Mitterrand supported the proposal for an inter-African force, invited Oueddei to Paris, supplied his army with some small arms and repeated an earlier offer to help rebuild the Chadian army in a neighboring country, probably Cameroon. In early October, the French Development Minister, Jean-Pierre Cot, demanded the withdrawal of the Libyans from Chad by the end of the year. Oueddei, bolstered by the French, openly criticized the Libyan presence...
...appearances, it was like any other meeting of the 13 nations that make up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The usual parade of Mercedes-Benz limousines rolled up outside the swank Inter-continental Hotel in Geneva, where they were met by a cordon of gray leather-jacketed Swiss police and platoons of reporters and photographers. Inside, the oil ministers lived like the modern-day kings they have become. They dined on sumptuous meals that included filet de truite fumée, poussin de Bresse aux morilles and coeur de Charolais róti aux herbes...
...tree 300 feet tall, with pink leaves,...that smelled awful!" This is the tone of much of the humor--old hat, but cute. The dwarves were supposed to repair "holes in time" marked on a precious map of the universe. They instead pilfer the map to use it for inter-period ooting...