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Saatchi management launched an overall restructuring program. Starting last spring, more than 800 corporate employees lost their jobs. Plans were laid to close corporate offices in Washington and to trim operations in New York City and in London, where the corporate staff last year moved into a glossy new global headquarters on sedate Berkeley Square. In addition, five of the firm's twelve directors left. As rumors of further shake-ups spread, Carl Spielvogel offered in July to buy the Backer Spielvogel Bates network. Charles Saatchi declined...
...well aware of Laurel's impatience and his ambition. Soon after Doy became Aquino's Vice President, a senior administration official laid it on the line during a meeting in Washington. "Look, pal," he said. "we support Mrs. Aquino. We don't care who you go to -- the Pentagon or the State Department or whoever -- the answer is the same." But the Vice President hasn't stopped trying. As the latest coup was under way, Laurel called it a display of democracy in action. Replied the U.S. State Department's deputy spokesman Richard Boucher: "We clearly do not view...
...them or you got laid on them. Everyone has had an experience on a picnic table...
...text betrayed no inclination for West Germany to stray from the folds of NATO or the European Community. The U.S. reacted positively, though it did not endorse Kohl's plan. State Department spokesman Margaret Tutwiler said that "it should be no cause for concern that the Chancellor has laid out his vision for the future of Germany." The presentation did surprise Western capitals in one regard: Kohl had consulted none of them -- not even Paris, London and Washington, which, together with Moscow, are empowered by the postwar settlement to determine the conditions of reunification. His decision not to consult...
...President laid out several substantial proposals for his receptive counterpart. Among them was a bid to hold the next summit on dry land. Weather permitting...