Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...corporate finance, Shleifer also contrastedlegal systems, looking at the impact of Englishcommon law, on the one hand, and Roman civil law,on the other, on the relationship betweenshareholders and company managers...
...relationship that existed between Harvard and Radcliffe until last Wednesday was often spoken of as a marriage. The analogy seemed to fit because the colleges co-existed on the same estate, sharing responsibility for us, their kids. Ironically, though, the real marriage seems only to have taken place last week. But on the surface, at least, it was still a 19th-century one: The woman gave up her name, formally relinquished custody of her children and brought a sizable dowry with her (in the form of a $200-million endowment and acres of prime Cambridge land...
...leader, which is exactly what Vader was trying to do, and that's exactly what the Emperor was trying to do. The Emperor was trying to get rid of Vader, and Vader was trying to get rid of the Emperor. And that is the antithesis of a symbiotic relationship, in which if you do that, you become cancer, and you eventually kill the host, and everything dies...
...novel. This mother-and-son grifter team has conned, robbed and even enslaved. But the real problem, as an acquaintance observes, is that "the people they deal with keep coming up dead." The most famous of these may be Irene Silverman. This clunky but engrossing account of the Kimeses' relationship with the wealthy Manhattanite leaves us where the New York Police Department is now: with a seemingly notorious murder, but no body and only circumstantial evidence. Still, the book's catalog of doctored passports and errant blood drops shows why this tale may eventually have a Hollywood ending: life...
...modest relationship with the FBI complicates the already murky case of her husband, Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwanese-born computer scientist who worked on nuclear warhead design programs at Los Alamos. In 1995 U.S. intelligence officers learned that China had somehow stolen classified information about the W-88 miniaturized nuclear warhead program. The ensuing FBI investigation found Wen Ho Lee had violated a number of lab security rules, including failing to report contacts with PRC scientists -- lapses for which Department of Energy secretary Bill Richardson fired him last month. So far, the FBI has not been able to find...