Word: kazarian
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...HAVE STRUCK SOME AS A LITTLE flaky. Still, Paul Kazarian qualified as a "mad genius" for leading Sunbeam-Oster out of bankruptcy and back to profitability. But then the 37-year-old wunderkind was dismissed as chairman and chief executive of the $1 billion company...
...Kazarian, whose investment group acquired financially troubled Sunbeam-Oster (ne Allegheny International) in 1990, was sacked by the company's board after a series of bizarre incidents. According to the Wall Street Journal, he fired a BB gun at empty chairs during a meeting while shouting "Die! Die!," threw a pint of orange juice past his controller's head, stomped on telephones in anger, and made lewd and vulgar comments to women in public. He was also reported to have regularly berated his senior officers, allegedly calling one of them a "scum." Kazarian denied the allegations...
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