Word: sylvain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sylvain Bromberger, an M.I.T. associate professor or Philosophy, announced last night the formation of a student-faculty committee to tutor O'Connor in jail after his arrest and arrange his admittance to the university after his release...
...beginning of the century," says Sylvain Floirat, 67, in the rolling accent of France's Périgord region, "when you founded a business, it was supposed to last at least two generations. Nowadays it's only a matter of a few years." Floirat has taken advantage of the change: buying and selling businesses ("Anybody can buy; knowing when to sell is another story"), he now owns 94 companies and a personal fortune of at least $100 million. And they know him at the bank. "There are only three of us on the Champs Elysées," Floirat...
...stations in France. Goaded to fury, the French government has begun to close in. Buying through front men, it has cornered a 32½% block of the station's stock-second only to the 42%-48% still held by Europe Number One's proprietor, French Millionaire (transport) Sylvain Floirat...