Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year career at Anheuser-Busch, he rose from office boy to president of the brewing subsidiary -- a remarkable ascent that made his sudden fall from grace last week all the more stunning. Dennis Long, 51, resigned as the No. 2 . officer in the company, behind Chairman August Busch III, amid a spreading executive-suite scandal. Just two weeks earlier, three other senior officials left the company after allegations that a St. Louis advertising agency gave kickbacks to two of the executives and a Porsche sports car to the third. Though Long has not been implicated, he said he assumed "full...
Susann was not the settling kind. She indeed got a dozen-year reprieve, and her books rose to the top of the charts. But she threw a drink at Johnny Carson, slapped a critic after he had panned one of her works, slept with an entire Borscht Belt of comedians and had lesbian relationships with a number of celebrities. All this has proved irresistible to Seaman, who takes Susann seriously, complete with index, bibliography and detailed footnotes. Lovely Me ^ contains more than 200 interviews and countless inside stories. All it lacks is the salty humor and gutsy immediacy its subject...
...even Thatcher's most bitter enemies cannot deny that the economy is rebounding smartly. Consumer spending rose by 5% last year, while inflation simmered at a low 3.4%. The output of the once sickly manufacturing sector is up by 5%. The government even predicted last week that the 11.9% unemployment rate would fall below 3 million by July, which would be the first time that had happened since 1984. But both opposition politicians and some economists were skeptical of the claim, and noted as well that Lawson's tax cuts came about largely because record corporate profits and a surge...
...Everything was going against us at the point," Scalise said. "But when Lapsley went down, it really seemed to wake everybody up. Jim Yue came in and made some big saves, and our defense really rose to the occasion...
...sylvan setting, cut by a small creek and shady pathways, creates a feeling of retreat and community at the center, says Rose Mary Sheldon, secretary to the director. Visitors are discourages, but determined Harvard sightseers can look around if special arrangements are made with the director's office. "It's just a think tank," says Sheldon. "We try to maintain a quiet atmosphere...