Word: myron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...globe trotting ended and her big-time career began when she was promoted into fragrances. Bloomingdale's vice president Myron Blumenfeld, now retired, was "astonished at the way she could handle people older and more sophisticated than she was. She put issues in front of people and never let the meeting wander...
...earnest victim. Civil rights leader Roy Innis rallied to Sumter's defense, as did editorialists from the city's newspapers. "How many subway riders, wary of the deranged homeless who make the subterranean world so menacing, have not fantasized responding to assault with violence?" wrote social commentator Myron Magnet in the New York Times. Public wrath at the homeless was so palpable that the Rev. George Kuhn felt the need to admonish restraint at the funeral of Sumter's still unidentified victim. "Homeless people are not wanted in our country," said Kuhn. "We have to say, 'I am ready...
...fascinated by large enduring things: monuments of the relatively recent past such as the Empire State Building and the Flatiron Building in New York; old practical forms like a windmill, a smokestack or a lighthouse; or things that have acquired a sort of timelessness as artistic stereotypes, like Myron's Discobolos or Rodin's The Thinker. But few of them are immediately recognizable, and they all derive from other kinds of art, including photography. The looming profile of Moskowitz's Flatiron Building comes from Edward Steichen's famous gray-silhouetted photo of that structure, made almost three-quarters...
...1990s corporations will continue to be bought and sold. But the deals will reflect old-fashioned values, like the strategic compatibility of companies with one another, rather than the profits to be made from doing a deal. "The whole system got out of whack," says Myron Lieberman, a senior partner of the Chicago firm Altheimer & Gray, which has specialized in buyouts for 25 years. "We just threw out considerations of how we were going to make the new companies healthy...
...A.H.A. calls the Government's stance hypocritical. "We're stepping into a good-bad food environment that has been perpetuated by the food industry with terms like 'lite' and 'no cholesterol,' " declares Dr. Myron Weisfeldt, president of the A.H.A. To help consumers make intelligent use of HeartGuide, the A.H.A. is providing explanatory brochures to supermarkets and a toll-free information line...