Word: spencers
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...task of turning Yahoo around is that it suggests the job needs someone with even more business acumen. Short of cloning Bill Gates or unearthing the DNA of Henry Ford, that's going to be one tough search. So envy not Jim Citrin, managing director of executive-search firm Spencer Stuart, whose job it is to seek a replacement. "We're looking for a great leader, a motivator," Citrin says. "Less someone with a particular industry background, and more of an athlete...
...British retailer Marks & Spencer's Cologne center, human resources manager Pia Schlei and works council head Janet Tomlinson both say that, despite inevitable differences, the relationship works because the two sides make an effort to understand each other. "I've worked at some places where the relationship was so bad the works council fought over every hour, but we've managed to agree on flexibility here," Schlei says, adding that she was glad the branch had only 140 employees. "If we had more than 200, it could cost us another $30,000 per year under...
...Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., where he majored in chemistry but had few extracurricular activities, unusual in the busy, close-knit society of the school. He also studied Russian, something even his mother Vivian says she did not know. "He might have been one of those loners," says Bruce Spencer, who attended Knox but doesn't remember him. Hanssen went on to graduate school at Northwestern University, where he studied first dentistry, then accounting...
...Glimmer brothers are old-time jazzmen, long estranged. Martin (John Spencer) has kept faith with the music--and with self-destruction. Daniel (Nicolas Surovy) has settled for suburban prosperity and forgetfulness. Shine (Jonathan Silverman), the son of a man who played with them, effects a reconciliation while pursuing Daniel's daughter (Alexa Fischer). Leight won a Tony for Side Man, also about musical lives. This play, now at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, is slicker, more manipulative. It is saved by Spencer (of TV's West Wing), whose towering rage at the dying light is awesome and hilarious...
There wasn't a lot of tension at Spencer Abraham's confirmation hearing last week. George W. Bush's pick to head the Energy Department is a shoo-in. But one uncomfortable moment came when Abraham refused to say what the new Administration would do about California's electricity crisis. That prompted Frank Murkowski, chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, to growl, "You better have some answers...