Word: lusterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week's deal added luster both to De Benedetti's reputation as a manager and to his flair for the dramatic, characteristics that have been his trademark for his nearly eight years at Olivetti. Says he: "This is the first time in Italy that a private businessman bought a state-controlled company and ! paid for it with real money, not pieces of paper or promises for future returns." After the new agreement is completed, Olivetti and the Buitoni- SME food group will remain separate corporate entities, but they will both come under De Benedetti's direction...
Eggs hatching babies, giant toadstools, but her-world creatures climbing up through the village well, and, of course, those amazing lycanthropes themselves; they're all here. And it is all shown to advantage against sets that glow with the medieval luster of a Waterhouse painting...
That might have been an understatement. By the private estimates of U.S. officials, the latest round in Geneva ranks among the roughest and least productive in the long annals of superpower negotiations. For the Reagan Administration, which gained substantial political luster in pushing for the talks, the opening session was an ominous reminder that an acrimonious and endlessly drawn-out contest of wills in Geneva could tarnish that luster. A prolonged stalemate might also downgrade any U.S.-Soviet summit to an exercise in atmospherics...
...Olive-drab Army buses wound down Pennsylvania Avenue, ferrying more than 100 members of Congress to the White House for a last- minute patriotic pitch from the Gipper. Chief Arms Control Negotiator Max Kampelman made a special guest appearance, jetting home from the Geneva arms talks to add diplomatic luster to Reagan's argument that a vote in the House against the MX would weaken America's bargaining position with the Soviets. Backstage, top Cabinet officials gave briefings to press Reagan's case to release $1.5 billion for a second batch of 21 missiles...
...Stanley. For its part, Phillips can rest easy. Pickens promised not to launch a new battle for the company for at least 15 years, and Icahn agreed to stay away for eight. But those may be meaningless pledges. With all its new debt, Phillips has lost much of its luster as a takeover target...