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...audacious entrepreneurs who built conglomerate empires from scratch in the 1960s, James Derrick Slater endured the longest. Americans like James Ling (Ling-Temco-Vought), Bernie Cornfeld (Investors Overseas Services) and John King (King Resources) saw their corporate houses of cards collapse around them, but England's merger lord and his mammoth Slater, Walker Securities Ltd. seemed to grow more prosperous every year. Now Slater, 46, has also had his comeuppance, His company's role in alleged fiscal improprieties is under investigation in Hong Kong and Singapore; he has resigned as chairman of Slater, Walker and gone into seclusion...
Women, we know what they are. They don't want it, but they do it. When they itch, they look for someone to scratch them...
...always seemed like a foolhardy venture: Malcolm Bricklin, 36, an unconventional millionaire from Philadelphia who sometimes wore Indian beads, thought he could start an auto-manufacturing business from scratch. To the surprise of many, Bricklin, who had made his original fortune running hardware stores, actually acquired two plants in Canada's New Brunswick province and started making his unconventional Bricklin cars. Now two secured creditors and the New Brunswick government, which had put up more than $20 million in cash and loan guarantees to obtain 67% control of Bricklin Canada Ltd., have placed the company in receivership, closing...
These examples only scratch the surface of 1-1-2's behavioristic potential. Pre-meds could all be stuck in one dorm, and the results would indicate much about the nature of the human and Harvard beasts. Would masses of pre-meds realize from this proximity to other pre-meds how crazy their grind is? Would they eventually self-destruct under heightened competition or would they just work harder...
...tough, mean, bitchy woman, who had no women friends, who had slept her way to the top to get the interviews and jobs, who had used her father's position to wield power, who considered herself a sex symbol and played it to the hilt, and who would scratch and claw anyone anytime to get what and where she wanted." Given the prevailing attitudes about successful women, the portrayal was not surprising--Barbara Walters, after all, has been accused of similar things--and it set the terms for the public perception and discussion of Sally Quinn...