Word: leopoldo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...making the same daft but splendid decision. And it is an even safer bet that kids everywhere, especially in the soccer-hungry U.S., already are practicing Bette-ga's graceful, evasive running, Dutch star Arand Haan's booming shot and the reckless headers of Argentina's Leopoldo Luque...
...Group of Ten, who is credited with the invention of Special Drawing Rights, and Mario Ercolani, also 61, until now head of the bank's foreign exchange operations. The new team appears to have won the approval of Italy's business community. Says Tire Maker Leopoldo Pirelli: "While one regrets that Carli is leaving, his successors represent the best solution." For his part, Carli vows that he will not follow the customary practice of lingering in the bank's corridors as an honorary governor. Instead, some observers suggest, he may become a politician...
...that they were not turned over to Roman civil authorities. They were released on bail, which is rarely allowed by Italian courts. Also, they are getting a speedy trial, which is even more unusual in the litigation-swamped Italian system. On top of that, the Vatican's prosecutor, Leopoldo Jacobelli, last week rose in court to ask the judges for clemency, partly because the thieves had confessed, partly because "the Vatican is benevolent." Even if the judges do impose heavy sentences, the culprits may still get off lightly: they could be pardoned by Pope Paul...
...greatest troubles afflict the ambitious transnational combinations of companies. Two years ago, Britain's Dunlop and Italy's Pirelli pooled interests to form a tire, cable and rubber giant, with sales of $2.3 billion. At the time, Leopoldo Pirelli, chairman of his family-run Italian company, said, "This is a marriage from which there is no turning back." Yet last week the partners had divorce in mind...
...guide to cost cutting, but to little avail. Geddes is discussing with Dunlop's bankers possible changes in the union; the choices are few. The British could try to persuade Pirelli to pull its Italian operations out of the world-spanning combine; yet that would hardly appeal to Leopoldo Pirelli. Or Geddes and his executives could continue trying to help Pirelli, at the risk of having rising losses entirely submerge Dunlop profits...