Word: stassen
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...spending binge and corporate profits are surging. The economy is expected to grow by 5.5% this year. Land prices are rising, and the stock market is up 73% since January. "This is a new start for Sri Lanka," says Don Harold Jayawardene, managing director of the Stassen Group, the nation's largest diversified conglomerate...
DIED. HAROLD E. STASSEN, 93, youngest Governor of Minnesota and eternally optimistic politician who made nine fruitless attempts to win the G.O.P. presidential nomination; in Bloomington, Minn. A political wunderkind, Stassen became county attorney at 23 and Governor at 31. Between stabs at the presidency (from 1948 to 1992), he continued a successful international-law practice, appointed the first black officer to the National Guard, helped charter the U.N. and served as president of the University of Pennsylvania and as a trusted aide to President Eisenhower...