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...document's most immediate effect was to strengthen Gorbachev as he walked into the party plenum assembled in the Kremlin to denounce him for his failure to bring the country to order. It proved he could make progress on the crucial issue of the union treaty, even garnering Yeltsin's support. It also reminded the communist chieftains that he does not depend solely on them for his political authority...
Erkut suggested that companies could help to alleviate the current problem by establishing employee supports such as mentor programs to strengthen a sense of community...
...same time we can and should strengthen our contacts at all levels with the reformers in Russia and the other republics. Gorbachev will not like that. But we must remember that he needs us far more than we need...
Procter & Gamble made its mark with such homely household products as Crisco, Tide and Ivory soap, but now the Cincinnati-based giant is paying up for glamour. In a move to strengthen its worldwide beauty business, P&G (1990 sales: $24 billion) last week agreed to buy the Max Factor cosmetics firm and Betrix, a German makeup and fragrance manufacturer, from Ronald Perelman's debt-burdened Revlon for $1.14 billion in cash. The deal "speeds up the global expansion of the company by at least five years," said P&G chief Edwin Artzt, who has focused on foreign growth since...
...good, strong report which speaks to the issues and captures the essence of what Cambridge rent control needs," Myers said. "We must improve and strengthen the system by making it fairer to everybody, taking the tension and the anger out of the system...