Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support for the takeover. Some Western diplomats believe that Babangida's ability to hold on to power depends on his success in turning around the Nigerian economy. Whatever his plans, he knows he must act quickly and | decisively. He has only to look at his own role as coup maker and coup breaker to know that in Nigeria unpopular or ineffective leaders do not last for long...
...rent Plaisance, a 20-room chateau by the sea in Newport, R.I., that he has dubbed Camp Rockport. In groups of a dozen, each of his 220 employees takes a car pool to the mansion for two days of sports and shoptalk with the boss. Rockport, a thriving maker of walking shoes (estimated 1985 sales: $68 million), has been growing so fast that Katz feared he was falling out of touch with employees. Says Katz: "We're trying to be a democratic company, one where people are just as important as the profits they make...
Just as A.H. Robins was filing for bankruptcy last week because of a product- liability case, another leading drug company, Eli Lilly, was having its own legal problems. Lilly, a maker of drugs (Darvon, a pain killer) and fragrances (Chloe), faced charges concerning Oraflex, a medicine for arthritis...
...bath of bamboo pulp magically raises a net-like sheet and suddenly has produced a single sheet of fresh white paper. An architect carves, without pattern, small pieces of wood which lock together without adhesive to form the outline of a model of elaborate Chinese architecture. A kite-maker chats animatedly with a Chinese friend about the strange American visitors she has experienced that day; all the while her hands file meticulously at the thin strips of wood which will flow in symmetric perfection as the body of vividly colored kites...
...much more than a glorified accountant, he is a key decision-maker in such areas as tuition and probably the administrator dealing most with the powerful Corporation. He therefore has input into the use of the and Harvard's day-to-day finances...