Word: overing
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The Saatchis seem to have reached the same conclusion. In October the brothers announced that they were in effect demoting themselves and bringing in new management to salvage the firm. Their choice for savior: Frenchman Robert Louis-Dreyfus, 43, former president of IMS International, a New York City-based pharmaceutical...
Louis-Dreyfus has no background in advertising but has earned a hot reputation as a financial whiz. His chief accomplishment is the brisk turnaround of IMS. The company, capitalized at $232 million when Louis-Dreyfus took over in 1982, was sold to Dun & Bradstreet last year for $1.7 billion.
Not all of Mandela's A.N.C. comrades were pleased by the exchange. Many were similarly disgruntled over the July meeting with Botha, an encounter of less import, considering that Botha was a lame duck. Some A.N.C. members seem to object to Mandela's taking a supreme role in the organization...
A two-stage Five-Year Plan to improve the economy that Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov unveiled last week reflected the tug-of-war going on within the leadership. Ryzhkov made clear that his approach represented a "third alternative" to making minor corrections in central planning or plunging headlong into a free...
The second sheet announced a silent demonstration on Dec. 5, Constitution Day. I decided to attend. In Pushkin Square I found a few dozen people standing around the statue. At 6 o'clock, half of those present, myself included, removed our hats and stood in silence. (The other half, I...