Word: protegees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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--Is your favorite CEO really in charge? Sandy Weill has engineered a tenfold stock gain while at the helm of Travelers Group and its predecessor companies since the mid-'80s. But last month Travelers merged with Citicorp to form Citigroup. Weill now serves as co-CEO with John Reed in...
Come fall, Mike McCurry will finally get to slip out the side door after three years of keeping scandal-hounds and Republicans at bay. He's been wanting to leave for a while. "The Lewinsky scandal held him hostage," says Tumulty, "and if it wasn't still hot these days...
For now, Starr is moving forward without her. Last week he finally brought Lewinsky's Pentagon confidant, Linda Tripp, before the grand jury to begin to tell what she knows from a year of girl talk with her trusting protege. Prosecutors spent 14 hours questioning Tripp and never even got...
Now this corporate attrition appears to be accelerating. Last week's exit of Steve Burke, president of Disney subsidiary ABC Broadcasting, was the latest in a string of departures in recent months, including those of top strategist Lawrence Murphy, chief financial officer Richard Nanula and TV whiz Geraldine Laybourne. The...
Gertrude ("Ma") Rainey, known as the mother of the blues, stands at the juncture of rural country blues and a more urban form that reached its peak with the popularity of her protege, Bessie Smith. As the first broadly known traveling blues woman, Rainey represented for many women in her...