Word: kaspar
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...needed. In September the Swiss senate granted the I.O.C. a tax abatement worth $1.5 million for "public service to Switzerland"--a country seeking the 2006 Winter Olympics for its mountain resort Sion. The lower house of parliament has yet to approve the windfall, but it may heed Finance Minister Kaspar Villiger, who persuaded reluctant senators to approve the tax break even if it meant "holding their noses...
Wanted: experienced computer executives willing to help a blue-chip CEO get out from under the worst crisis in company history. IBM has sent out such a Mayday. Answering the call were retired vice chairmen Paul Rizzo, 64, and Kaspar Cassani, also 64, who will help chairman and chief executive John Akers get Big Blue back on an even keel. Still unanswered, though, is the question of who asked the pair to return. Some analysts think Akers did it, to placate IBM's increasingly dissatisfied board. Others suspect the board brought Rizzo and Cassani back, as the first step toward...
Edward is the innocent other, a literary type that stretches from Kaspar Hauser to Being There's Chauncey Gardiner to E.T. -- and to the heroes of Burton's Beetlejuice and Pee-wee's Big Adventure. When the Avon lady brings him into her spectacularly bland neighborhood, she unawares sets his creativity on a collision course with her friends' anxious conformity. At first the housewives accept Edward's handicap as a gift. His metal shears can dice vegetables in a trice, turn a drab hairdo into a chic coiffure and sculpt front-yard bushes into exotic topiary: ballerinas, pterodactyls, even...
According to Turk and documents filed at the Registry of Deeds, Wetmore's apartment is owned by James N. Kaspar of Newton Circle, who bought the apartment in 1981 as a condominium from Robert M. Harlow...