Word: partner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...admirable effort, but the question is going to come down to state regulation versus federal regulation, and I think there's going to be a lot of debate about it," said Thomas J. Dougherty, a partner in the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. "They're going to be in and out of court...
...least 40 percent of a company's stock to call a special meeting of the company's shabeholders. Now, approval from just 10 percent is needed--a right that was meant to ensure accountability but "has been abused lately" by some hostile raiders, said Stephen B. Kay, a partner in the brokerage firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. who served on the Dukakis commission...
Ciavaglia's toughness was show-cased by his strong penalty-killing performance with partner Allen Bourbeau. In the ECAC tournament consolation game against Cornell, Harvard killed off six straight penalties--most of them thanks to the Ciavaglia-Bourbeau combination...
...Chancellor's popularity at home has sagged recently, and his center-right coalition is threatened by discontent over widely criticized tax and health reforms. In an almost desperate attempt to regain ground, he has adopted the negotiate-now attitude of the Social Democratic opposition and of his coalition partner, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. When Kohl sent two ministers to Washington to explain his reversal, they were met icily, even though Kohl has long been the West German politician closest to Washington...
...graduate of Cambridge University and Harvard Business School, Sorrell worked in posts ranging from sports promotion to food retailing before landing a job with the Saatchis in 1977. He spent eight years helping manage that firm's headlong growth, then left to build his own empire. Sorrell and a partner paid $676,000 for a controlling share in WPP in 1985, then used the company as an acquisition vehicle; they have bought 39 marketing and advertising firms so far. His most stunning triumph was the 1987 purchase of the JWT Group, an American conglomerate seven times the size...