Word: statements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presiding Judge Andre Cerdini probed his career with the Nazi SS, his work for U.S. Army Intelligence after the war, his flight to South America in 1951 and, finally, his 1983 expulsion from Bolivia to stand trial in France. Unexpectedly, Barbie asked Cerdini for permission to read a statement. "I am being held here illegally," said the defendant without emotion, referring to his oft-repeated contention that he was unlawfully expelled from Bolivia. "I am the victim of a kidnaping . . . I'm not a prisoner, but a hostage." Then he stunned onlookers by refusing to submit further to the judicial...
...Bacardi heirs for the privatization plan, but another faction rose up in opposition. The dissidents feared that they would lose their voice in management and that removing the stock from public trading would hurt its value. Said a discontented family member: "The reasons put forth in the proxy statement are not sufficiently weighty to put the company through this trauma...
...only portion of the empire that is a publicly traded company, and that is the point of contention. Last year Bacardi Corp.'s two top officers, Chairman Alfred O'Hara and President Manuel Luis Del Valle, launched a campaign to take the Bacardi Corp. private. In a proxy statement, they said such a move would "reduce the diversity of stockholder interests, thereby simplifying the corporation's management decisions...
Founded in 1885, Goucher went coed in an effort to reverse declining enrollment, currently around 850. "The presence of a full-time male student has made a statement," says President Rhoda Dorsey, pointing to a 51% rise in applications. Some 100 came from men, so Monheit will not be a lone pioneer for long. That suits him fine. He would rather follow quietly in the footsteps of his mother, Goucher...
Although this guide is not intended as a complete description of urban living in America, it does try to portray the general feeling. Life, as Hobbes once put it, is "nasty, brutish, short, and the rent's way too high"--a statement even truer today, since the invention of carcinogens and condos...