Word: thomas
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That encounter eventually led to the formation of Golder, Thoma & Cressey, a Chicago venture capital firm that started business in 1980 with $60 million. Now the partnership manages two funds worth $160 million. Cressey rides herd on nine companies, primarily in the health-care industry, including his most promising current venture, Continental Medical Systems, a nursing-home operator. "In the office, we spend all our time juggling phone calls from CEOs, dealing with problems from hiring to firing," he says. "You've got to change your mind-set quickly from one company to another." Cressey spends his free time...
Each time he was almost out of business, an angel appeared. In 1980 a local gynecologist persuaded several fellow doctors to pitch in $500,000. Since then, a $5 million infusion by a group of investors, including Golder Thoma & Co., a Chicago venture-capital firm, and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette's aptly named Sprout Investment Group, has enabled Vorhauer to hire 40 employees. V.L.I. will soon move into a 50,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility in nearby Irvine. Vorhauer expects to hire 80 more workers by year's end as production gears up. The United Kingdom and four other...
...taste formed and dominated by Paris, from impressionism onward. Ten years ago, there was not one art course in America that would have suggested that Friedrich was a painter of comparable importance to Géricault or even Delacroix, or that the work of Wilhelm Leibl or Hans Thoma might be anything better than an able but provincial reaction to that of Gustave Courbet. It was not always so; last century, Munich influenced American artists even more than Paris. There are plenty of parallels, if not exact concordances, between the infinite longings expressed in German romantic art and the sense...