Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...controls will be Hollis Harris, who resigned last week as president of Delta Airlines after 36 years with that company. SAS, which is 50% publicly held and 50% owned by the governments of Denmark, Sweden and Norway, faces the task of rebuilding a beaten-down company. The polished Scandinavian firm has made a start. Since last year, it has operated a so-called charm school, a two-day training course, for Continental employees at the company's Houston headquarters. While confirming last week that Lorenzo's departure was an essential condition of the deal, SAS chief Jan Carlzon charmingly praised...
...Brennan remains keen of mind, but his body is ailing. He fainted about three weeks ago while waiting to board a plane at Newark airport, but revived and went on to take a Scandinavian cruise. After his return to Washington, however, doctors told him he had suffered a mild stroke and urged him to ease up, advice Brennan took. On Friday night he sent a hand-delivered letter to the White House. Citing "my advancing age and medical condition," Brennan wrote that he was resigning "effective immediately...
Such flipness has resulted in "a 24-hour stakeout on John Silber's mouth," in the words of media analyst Ralph Whitehead. The watch often pays off. Who else calls the Boston School Committee "otiose" or academic opponents "pismires" (derived from a Scandinavian term for urinating ants)? During his campaign, Silber declared that a person can live with alcohol abuse and still achieve at a high level, likened the oratory technique of Jesse Jackson to that of Adolf Hitler and asserted that "the racism of Jews is quite phenomenal." He told reporters early in the campaign, "I know...