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...Course. Abboud built his industrial pyramid with the calm judgment of an expert manager, the intuition of a poker player, and-according to his enemies-some of the tactics of a Washington five-percenter. He has supported some governments, worked for the fall of others he didn't get along with, and was closely allied with the corrupt Wafdist Party. When the Wafdists came to power in 1951. they quashed some 140 tax evasion suits against his interests. Nevertheless, when Strongman Naguib took over last year and was asked what he intended to do about Abboud, he replied: "Give...
Under the two pyramid system in effect since the stores reached the department, stage in the info 1800's the buyer is completely separate from any selling responsibilities. All sales and store operations are handled by the management division. But under the increasingly popular department manager system, the buyer takes on all the duties of a small store owner...
...late George R. Agassiz '84 this year left a trust fund that will probably pyramid $50,000 into over $12 million for research on animals...
...Stone & Webster, and handled the liquidation of some 50 utility companies under the death-sentence clause. Moreover, since Stone & Webster once did a financial study for Standard Gas, he was familiar with the intricacies of its history: its early dominance by Chicago Tycoon H. M. Byllesby, who put the pyramid together, then by Wall Street's Victor Emanuel, later by New Dealers (e.g., Leo Crowley) whom Emanuel brought in to try to work out a plan under the death sentence...
Speed the Journey. Born the very year that the pyramids were discovered, soft-spoken Samuel Mercer has spent a lifetime studying ancient languages. He has specialized in cuneiform and hieroglyphics, has compiled grammars in Assyrian, Ethiopic and Egyptian, written a definitive study of the tablets of Tell el-Amarna, been professor of Semitic languages and Egyptology at the University of Toronto. Since 1946 he has devoted his full time and energies to working on the pyramid texts...