Word: landmarked
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...million to acquire the last private buildings on the block (since 1990, $185 million has been spent buying up all the others), and officials confirmed that the Walt Disney Co. is all but recruited to renovate and stage live performances in the New Amsterdam Theater, the grand Art Nouveau landmark where Ziegfeld had his Follies. "It is the deal that we all dreamed about," says one of the project's masterminds. "When somebody like ((Disney chairman)) Michael Eisner comes in, everybody follows...
Still, Kondo said HRE persevered. "We wantedsomething that wasn't just a sign, but that wouldbe a landmark for the square," Kundo said...
...floor below the negotiators hammering out a pact on South Africa's transition council at the Johannesburg World Trade Center, businessmen from 150 U.S. companies and 10 U.S. states were gathered last week for a landmark trade show. Corporations large and small displayed everything from shampoo and ball bearings to portable toilets and pinball machines. All manner of blue- chip names were in attendance: Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, Timken and Kellogg. "The potential is there," says Jan Pieterse, an executive at Upjohn, the Michigan-based pharmaceutical firm. "With South Africa able to $ play an important role, this is no longer...
...also caught the attention of America Online president Steve Case, whose pioneering four-year-old service has more than 300,000 subscribers. Case met last spring with assistant managing editor Walter Isaacson, and the two men subsequently hammered out a deal. Says Case: "TIME's arrival online is a landmark event in creating this new medium." I am delighted to offer this exciting service to our readers, and I look forward to seeing you all online...
Besides litigation, one seemingly effective remedy for such behavior is diversity in the ranks. Ann Hopkins, who won her battle to become a partner at the Price Waterhouse accounting firm with the help of a landmark discrimination case that reached the Supreme Court in 1989, now supervises a professional staff made up of 45% women. "None of us would put up with anything," she says...