Word: meier
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...heart condition. As a replacement, Russian officials may ask NASA to allow American astronaut Michael Foale to take part in the repairs, a move sure to attract fire from Congress, which has become increasingly critical of the joint U.S.-Russian program over the past several weeks. TIME's Andrew Meier reports that the Russian decision to cancel the spacewalk was made to give Tsibliyev a much needed day off after a series of harrowing incidents, and a chance for further medical exams to better assess his condition: "They are trying to do damage control, saying there's no reason...
...authorities, however, the takeover is expected to bring a round of layoffs. Though Roche declined to give specific figures, the Swiss industrial labor union GBI said it feared job cuts of 15 percent from the 70,000 workers now employed at the combined companies. Roche finance chief Henri B. Meier predicted the takeover would soon increase earnings, but that in the current year it will "dilute" profits. American investors will have their say when U.S. markets open Tuesday...
...International Style meant the death of ornament and a recoil from "fine" material. Nor, in the '70s and '80s, was the cheap pasteboard revivalism of Postmodernist historical quotation going to revive a sense of grandeur. Moreover, with the exception of various memorials, and of such projects as Richard Meier's six-building Getty Center in Los Angeles (to be completed later this year), the level of grand commissions for public benefit flattened...
...Reported by Brigid O'Hara-Forster/London, Andrew Meier and Yuri Zarakhovich/Moscow and Mark Thompson/Washington
Mediated by GSE lecturer Bob Schwartz, the panel included Meier; Ellen Guiney, director of the Boston Plan for Excellence; Sol Hurwitz, president of the New York Committee on Economic Development; Ron Wolk, publisher and editor of Education Week, and Ronn Robinson, corporate director of education policy for Boeing Corp...