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Weill stands apart from an industry where oversize egos often overwhelm logic. His latest deal caps years of collecting castoff companies at fire-sale prices and then trimming costs by paying close attention to detail. He started in 1986 by taking over Commercial Credit, a reject of computer-maker Control Data. It was not the job he wanted--Weill had been given the bum's rush when he offered himself as CEO of BankAmerica--but a spruced-up Commercial Credit gave Weill a springboard. And he sprang: he merged Commercial Credit with struggling Primerica in 1988, getting the Smith Barney...
...when a disease is nontreatable, the burden of knowing can overwhelm the benefits. Nationwide, only 1,500 genetic counselors, most of them drawing on guidelines derived from Brandt's research, have been trained to help people assess such risks. "The protocol developed by Brandt is a paradigm for other late-onset, incurable diseases," says Nancy Wexler, president of the Hereditary Disease Foundation and a leading HD researcher. "It's very responsive to individual needs...
...gallery. They range from Yan Liben's Thirteen Emperors' Scroll, the only surviving visual record of a series of Chinese emperors, to the scrolls of the famous emperor and artistic patron Huizong, whose devotion to the arts cost him his throne, to the earliest portrait of Confucius. These paintings overwhelm the viewer not only with their historical importance but also with their delicate and subtle rendering of volume, depth and material detail...
...cited the copious amounts of time spent on extracurricular activities as a serious impediment to creating a culture of scholarly learning. My English professor this semester has begged us over and over again to find quite spaces to sit and read poetry, lest the contemporary distractions of college life overwhelm...
JACK REED Democrat--Rhode Island The self-styled heir to retiring Senator Claiborne Pell, Reed used generous help from labor unions and lawyers to overwhelm Rhode Island Treasurer Nancy Mayer by 28 points...