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...Maher Abaza, Egypt's Minister of Energy, sits in semidarkness in his cavernous Cairo office, the only light a small desk lamp and neon bulbs overhead. "This is a very hard year for our country's power system," he explains. "I have told the Egyptian people clearly -- we do not have enough." At the Aswan High Dam, Supervisor Hamdi el Shaffei observes, "Water is our fuel. Not a drop is wasted." Under his feet, huge turbines hum as thousands of gallons of precious Nile River water gush past each second, heading north on the last...
...cordially delivered their bombshell. Afterward, they scurried across the street to their lawyers' office to begin working the telephone to recruit an initial 30 employees, many of them from First Boston. Meanwhile, Buchanan promptly named a new pair of rising stars to take over the investment-banking department, James Maher, 38, and Richard Bott, 40. Says Buchanan: "Of course, it's disruptive to lose talented people. But Maher is as solid as they come, though he has never felt the need for a lot of personal visibility...
...Maher and Bott will be hard-pressed to match their predecessors' style or accomplishments. In boardrooms from Pittsburgh to Palm Beach, the two men seemed an unlikely pair. Perella, a lanky 6 ft. 6 in., with an affable demeanor, towers over the rounder, more combative Wasserstein. But since the duo began building First Boston's mergers department in the mid-1970s, they have brought their firm into some of the most famous and infamous deals of the decade. In one case, the team was all too effective in helping Texaco beat rival Pennzoil in a battle to acquire Getty...
...Maher Nasser, a spokesman of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, said Goulding "tried several entrances to the camp but could not enter...
...very nervous. There was every reason to be nervous [with] a lot of CCA votes behind me," Rafferty said. But when Independent David Maher's 1858 votes were redistributed, 722 of them went to secure Rafferty's position...