Word: posner
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...Gerald Posner, an American lawyer who has assembled 25,000 pages of documents and interviewed 200 witnesses in South America during a four-year search for the doctor of death, explained that when he first heard of the find at Embu, he thought the story a hoax. After flying from New York City to Sao Paulo, however, Posner said, "We have to await the forensic investigation, but I'm starting to think he may be dead...
Another example of that institutionalized discrimination came at the Baccalaureate Address of the Class of 1960, Charlene Horn Posner of Illinois remembers. "The speaker told us that when we were up to our elbows in diapers and dishes, it would enrich us to have read Anna Karenina," Posner says...
...another example was the lack of career counseling available to the Radcliffe student. "Someone who knew what she wanted to do could get a lot of help, but the average student didn't get any assistance," says Posner. "At the moment of graduation, I was left high...
...past two decades, Victor Posner, 66, the Miami Beach financier, has corralled major stakes in more than 40 companies, including control of Atlanta-based Royal Crown, the soft-drink maker, and a 37% interest in Chicago's National Can. Last week, though, key parts of Posner's billion- dollar empire were staggering. Evans Products (1984 sales: more than $1 billion), a Posner-controlled company that sells building materials and railroad cars, filed a bankruptcy petition in Miami. Posner's Sharon Steel seems shaky; it is more than two weeks late with a $23 million payment on its $330 million debt...
Despite the stumbles, Posner shows no signs of slowing down--or running out of money in other parts of his realm. He has offered about $400 million, or , $40 a share, for the 63% of National Can that he does not already own. The company and its employees are also offering a $40-a-share price for a majority of the Na- tional Can stock in an effort to keep from becoming Posner's next possession...