Word: sevenths
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Wall Street, however, can't make up its wary mind about the miracle that Louis V. Gerstner Jr., IBM's seventh CEO, seems to have managed. In the past three years, Gerstner has brought IBM back from what his top lieutenant immodestly calls a "near death experience" instigated by the company's slavish commitment to mainframe computing, a business that started to dissolve sometime during the Carter Administration. Since arriving in April 1993, Gerstner has refocused IBM on businesses that actually exist, unplugged more than 40% of the work force, tripled its once crippled stock price and, in the process...
BORN: April 4, 1927, Phoenix EDUCATION: Arizona State U, B.S., 1951 FAMILY: Divorced; three children RELIGION: Seventh-day Adventist MILITARY: Navy, 1943-46 OCCUPATION: Cotton farmer POLITICAL CAREER: Arizona House, 1959-67; Arizona Senate, 1967-76; U.S. House, 1976- ADDRESS: P.O. Box F, Tolleson...
Borow envisions a District 7, one of Chicago's poorest, "where there is no need for welfare" and believes that empowerment zones, tax reform and faith in God will get it there. Piety may not mean much elsewhere, but in the rough-and-tumble Seventh, blind faith may just be a potent political platform...
...style in favor of bipartisanship and doubts the value of the Republican flat tax and consumption-tax proposals. But he believes in giving states control of welfare and Medicaid. Running a safe campaign on the center right, Pease is favored to continue the Republican status quo in the conservative Seventh...
...rookie Prestifilippo was more than accomplished at the Hotchkiss School and was drafted in the seventh in the seventh round in the June NHL draft by the New York Islanders...