Word: ruthlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That may sound like an extraordinary challenge. But Al Dunlap, who landed in the corner office at Sunbeam in July, is nothing if not extraordinary. Just ask him. Why should he step up now? Next week the man known as Chainsaw Al, who became the poster boy of ruthless restructuring, will unveil eagerly awaited details of his turnaround strategy at troubled Sunbeam, which makes toasters, barbecues and other gadgets. The rap on Chainsaw is that he's all cut and no growth, and you can be sure his plans for Sunbeam will include a drastic reduction in facilities, product lines...
...turns out, that "Lewis thing" may be the only business trait she and her husband shared. Reg was a brash Harvard-trained lawyer who became the richest African American in U.S. history through ruthless ambition and sheer willpower; Loida is scholarly and low key, the author of three textbooks, and deeply religious. She is perhaps the only CEO of a multinational company who greets visitors with a hug rather than a handshake. He smoked power-broker cigars, traveled in a custom jet and kept a Louis XIV-style office suite in Paris as a pit stop. She finds little...
...longer works in a hospital. "The more experienced nurses tend to be the ones let go," he says. "Then they are replaced with people fresh out of school who are cheaper. I left hospital nursing because I couldn't give patients the time I felt they needed." Such ruthless budget slashing disillusioned Susan M. Heffernan, a 34-year-old New York City nurse. "It is an atrocity that an annual salary of $71,250 for an R.N. with 20 years' experience is not considered cost efficient," she wrote. "To hospital administrators who want to replace R.N.s with unlicensed workers...
EXECUTED. NAJIBULLAH, 49, former Soviet-backed President of Afghanistan who had spent more than four years in refuge at a U.N. compound; in Kabul. Najibullah, a ruthless security chief who ruled from 1986 until 1992, was found hanged after the Taliban rebels captured Kabul. Afghanistan will now be ruled by strict Islamic...
...Kennedy myth after Dallas has set an American mood of moral disquiet and trompe l'oeil. Now you see it, now you don't. The shining story of Camelot has proceeded through the decades with an evil twin--the American tabloid version of the Kennedys, with Mafia molls and ruthless lusts and greeds: the gods as gangsters...