Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems likely that the House will vote to impeach on Thursday. The staff's protestations aside, it is the right thing to do. --Andrew S. Chang '99, Jenny E. Heller '01, Vasant M. Kamath '02, Richard S. Lee '01, Kevin E. Meyers '02, Noah D. Oppenheim '00, Joshua H. Simon '00, Susannah B. Tobin...
There is a new sophistication to private-banking clients that has taken some old-line European banks by surprise. "People have this image of private banking as a crusty old frock-coated Lord and Lady Jemima Puddleduck having tea with the bank manager," says Simon de Ferrer of the Royal Bank of Canada. "But the new wealth is more like Richard Branson"--the flamboyant British founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin Records...
Allen has cast Kenneth Branagh as Lee Simon, as uncannily familiar whimpering and shaking fellow in his mid-life crisis. Lee is a travel writer who has seen little beyond New England due to his fear of flying. He has just left Robin (Judy Davis), his wife of 16 years, to pursue other things, such as Bryant Park catwalks, movie stars and young struggling actresses...
...imperious CEO began to pride himself on scaring his employees. When Dick Snyder was president of Simon & Schuster, ear protection became a recommended piece of executive equipment. The intensity of Snyder's verbal assaults would surprise even him--but surprise did not stop him. Snyder met his match in the equally fearsome Martin Davis, who became CEO of Simon & Schuster's parent company, Gulf + Western. Meanwhile in the Bronx, Yankee owner George Steinbrenner was taking delight in firing people. He is so paradigmatic of impetuous power (throwing tantrums, bad-mouthing employees in the press, hiring...
...Joshua H. Simon contributed to thereporting of this story...