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Perhaps the difference in this contest was the crowd--the largest ever in Dartmouth women's lacrosse history--and the relative experience of the two teams...
Since Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers walked out in 1968, no union has left the AFL-CIO. But now the largest U.S. railroad union, the 90,000- member United Transportation Union, has decided to uncouple itself from the national labor federation. One of the main reasons for the split is that an AFL-CIO official, Robert Georgine, became vice chairman of the Alliance for Coal and Competitive Transportation, a lobbying group that supports legislation to permit coal-slurry pipelines. Railroad workers oppose the pipelines because they would take coal-hauling business away from trains...
...ambition to a giant iron flywheel that almost no one could stop. For his part, Charles, 42, has "an insatiable desire to own and dominate everything," according to a former colleague. Their attitude gets results. The advertising agency that the brothers started in 1970 has mushroomed into the largest in Europe...
Their appetite unspoiled, the brothers now want Saatchi & Saatchi (1985 billings: $3 billion) to become the largest ad agency in the world. Last week the company agreed to pay an estimated $100 million to acquire New York City's Backer & Spielvogel (billings: $400 million), a fast-growing agency best known for its Miller Lite ads. The acquisition will make Saatchi & Saatchi the world's third ranking ad agency, behind Tokyo's Dentsu ($3.62 billion) and New York City-based Young & Rubicam ($3.57 billion), according to Advertising Age, a trade journal...
...growth. Until the Saatchis came along, London's stuffy financial community shunned advertising agencies as unreliable investments. The brothers changed all that by posting an unbroken pattern of 50% annual growth after they went public in 1975. Last week the company announced a $600 million stock sale, the third largest in British history. With all that spending money, the snowballing Saatchi & Saatchi will undoubtedly be growing even faster...