Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe is engaged in mythmaking; he considers the creation of a new set of legends to suit the multi-colored ethnic New York of today. But in the end, his myths are negations of the existing order. The only resolution possible is complete annihilation--the bonfire...
...foreign invader wheeled into Brussels last week in a shiny black Mercedes and swept immediately into a jammed press conference. Wearing a gray pinstriped suit and smoking a thin cigar, Carlo De Benedetti, the Italian industrialist, began confidently. "Allow me to introduce myself," he said. "I was born in Turin. I'm 53 years old. I'm not really sure where I live, but it's somewhere between Turin, Milan and airplanes." Then the high-flying entrepreneur proceeded to explain why he wanted to do what many proud Belgians viewed as the unthinkable, to gain control of Societe Generale...
...nativist streak that is an undercurrent of populism. Bruce Babbitt's best applause comes when he denounces corporate executives who get large bonuses while cutting workers' benefits. He has called IBP meat-packers, one of Iowa's most antiunion companies, a "corporate outlaw." All the other Democrats soon followed suit. Gary Hart's new slogan -- "Let the people decide" -- also strikes an anti- Establishment chord...
Last September, Robins and Solomon filed a $5.2 million suit against Rockwell Shuttle Operations Co. and Unisys, claiming they were the victims of company retaliation...
...ombudsman appointed by the company. A corporate security source confirms that within 24 hours of a complaint, the ombudsman relays the information to James Roberts, who is head of both the Rockwell subsidiary's ethics committee and its security force. The whistle-blowers allege that since they filed their suit, they have often been followed at night by vehicles, some of whose license plates have been traced to the security force. One was a private truck owned by Roberts...