Word: nisbet
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...however, the Busch-Reisinger Museum houses the world’s leading collection of artwork from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Now celebrating its centennial, the museum has had “a most improbable survival,” according to Daimler-Benz Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Peter Nisbet...
...It’s been an incredible experience for me working with [museum curator] Peter Nisbet, who had faith that I would be able to do this exhibition, as well as working with other curators who helped me look through their museum’s collections,” Sudhalter says...
...value of its equity holdings drops to zero - a true disaster scenario - it would still have enough capital to satisfy legal minimum solvency requirements. Still, the industry can't afford complacency. "If the markets fall by 15% from here, one or two companies will have problems," says David Nisbet, insurance analyst at Merrill Lynch. "If they fall by 30%, it's the regulators who will have the problems." Most regulators aren't waiting idly for that to happen. "Reinforcing control of insurers is the order of the day," says André Laboul, head of the Financial Affairs Division...
...That concern shouldn?t be aimed at libraries, says Miriam Nisbet, the legal counsel for the American Library Association (ALA). The ease with which materials can be duplicated, she says, is a legitimate concern for the publishers. But "from our standpoint, librarians are the most conscientious people in the world about copyright and adhering to it and making sure their patrons know what they can and cannot...
That is a revolutionary concept for Boeing. In the early '90s, Boeing chased market share, often at the cost of lower profits. Now it is more deferential to its shareholders. "Boeing's basic thinking has changed," says Nisbet. "It isn't who can sell the most airplanes but who can make the most money." In order to do that, Boeing is promoting itself not merely as an airplane maker but as a diversified aerospace company with high-tech missile-defense contracts, space and communications systems and a growing aircraft-service business. To emphasize its new orientation, Boeing in March announced...