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...tough manager who demands tangible results. After 31 years with Philips, he became president of Polygram International, the company's recorded-music subsidiary, in 1983 and quickly transformed it from a money loser into one of the firm's standout successes. Timmer's reputation as a tough turnaround specialist was confirmed four years later when he moved the consumer-electronics division into the black through a combination of staff cuts and a stronger emphasis on marketing...
...serve-and-volley specialist, Shyjan upset the defending national champion, LSU's Donni Leaycraft, 3-6, 7-6 (7-1), 7-5, in Harvard's 5-3 loss to the fourth-ranked Tigers in the second round of the tournament...
...Ministry of Justice, which had been abolished in 1966, and put an Alia aide in charge of it. Suspected criminals were granted the right to an attorney from the time of arrest, and the number of capital offenses was reduced from 34 to eleven. Says Nicholas Pano, an Albanian specialist at Western Illinois University: "Albania is serious about shedding its Stalinist heritage...
...corps's problem is to find a mission that would justify its continued existence. In what defense specialist Edward Luttwak calls a "geopolitical meltdown," the collapse of the Warsaw Pact has forced the Pentagon to reassess what sorts of war the U.S. may have to fight in the future. Rather than a huge tank-and-artillery Armageddon on the central front of Europe, the most likely outbreaks will be "low-intensity conflicts" such as the American invasions of Grenada and Panama. Although these are precisely the sort of assignment for which the Marines were created, they played no central role...
...analysis of the Pentagon, defense specialist Richard Halloran argues that the best way to eliminate the glut of low-intensity forces would be to meld the Marines into the Army. Although many experts agree with Halloran, any move in that direction would encounter huge political land mines. Harry Truman once tried to slash the Marines on the grounds that the Navy did not need its own army, but he was beaten by what he described as a Leatherneck "propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's." Aside from the clout of ten Senators and 21 Representatives in the current...