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Choosing a woman for a senior position used to be enough to spark speculation that the company was in trouble. Leanne Lachman, president of the Chicago-based Real Estate Research Corp. (estimated 1985 revenues: $7.8 million), recalls that her promotion in 1979 triggered such stories about her firm. Says she: "Appointing a woman as president was a high-risk thing to do at the time." Barbara Gardner Proctor avoided the problem in 1970 when she founded her Chicago advertising agency by naming it Proctor & Gardner. Some early clients, she recalls, "assumed that there was a Mr. Gardner...
...Fatah Revolutionary Council, into a fanatical, amorphously structured terrorist band with between 200 and 500 adherents. They have been blamed for more than 100 terrorist attacks. In June 1982, members of Abu Nidal's group shot and gravely wounded Israeli Ambassador to Britain Shlomo Argov, an assault that helped spark the Israeli invasion of Lebanon...
...edited fraud, according to the President's office, which played it for the media last week along with a recording of what it said was the original, undoctored conversation. The edited tape, say Arroyo and her aides, is part of a broader plan by her rivals to discredit her, spark street protests and provide support to a military coup d'?tat. "I am saddened that while I am doing my job," Arroyo told a local radio station, "there are people who want to bring me down or undermine my capability to govern the country." General Efren Abu, Arroyo's armed...
...quick glance at the stat column doesn’t tell you anything about Katie Murphy. The number under total points—two, five, sometimes 10—doesn’t turn heads or spark conversation...
...previous year. Still, in between those discouraging bookends—a poor showing in early non-league play and double-digit losses at both Princeton and Penn to close out the schedule—the Crimson was able to piece together a solid 7-7 Ivy League campaign, and spark the resurgence of Harvard basketball...