Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paris banking house associated with Lazard of Manhattan and of London, was excluded from any role in floating a $25 million bond issue for Air France. One of the participants, Intra Investment Co., which gets its money from Kuwait, Qatar and Lebanon, insisted that Lazard be shut out. Intra officials put pressure on the two lead banks in the deal, Credit Lyonnais and Banque Nationale de Paris, both of which are government owned. Lazard was also excluded from a $25 million issue for another client, the state-owned utility, Compagnie Nationale du Rhone...
...most successful practitioner of this design proliferation, as well as one of the Continent's most talented designers, is France's Pierre Cardin, that shrewd fantasist who has tacked his name on to just about anything that can be nailed, glued, baked, molded, bolted, braced, bottled, opened, shut, pushed or pulled. Says Cardin: "As I designed clothes, I found that I also had to think about the atmosphere in which to show them. That led me into designing my own boutiques, and from there it was only natural for me to expand my horizon." Italy...
...have prepared us for the least. Despite our assumed intelligence, we get very little news; few of us have televisions, few of us read newspapers that give us a comprehensive view of what is happening outside Harvard. Only in educational institutions, mental asylums and prisons can one choose to shut himself off so completely from the world around...
...remains a trustee), and at an emergency meeting Lowther was thrown off the board. Lawrence E. Dennis, 54, former provost of the Massachusetts state college system, was named treasurer and acting president. Dennis estimates that the institute is at least $500,000 in debt and may have to shut down at the end of the month. Meanwhile, the Lowthers have brazenly filed a bankruptcy suit against the institute, claiming that it incurred all of its financial obligations itself. Says Dennis: "It's beyond doubt the most incredible action imaginable...
...progress had both come to a thudding halt. After a grim meeting with Grant's bankers at the chain's new Manhattan headquarters, Kendrick said that the company would report a loss of $175 million for the past year. In a massive retrenchment program, it would also shut down at least 126 of its 1,182 stores, and complete the release or retirement of 12,600 of its 82,500 employees...