Word: tisch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years Harry Tisch was the leader of the Confederation of Free German Trade Unions, commanding more than 9 million members and almost limitless perks. But when communism fell, so did Tisch, and last week he became the first member of the former East German regime to go on trial for abusing his power. Among the charges against him: diverting $70 million in union funds to personal projects, including the construction of a luxury hunting lodge on the Baltic...
...Berlin courtroom, Tisch, who once reveled in the limelight alongside East German head of state Erich Honecker, spoke in a barely audible voice and stared straight ahead with rheumy, vacant eyes. Defense attorneys said he had suffered a stroke, but the judge ruled that the trial should...
...with issuing illegal shoot-to-kill orders to border guards, Honecker has avoided arrest by taking refuge in a military hospital outside Berlin. Several other former leaders are also under investigation, but most of them are elderly or ailing. With public resentment fading in the euphoria of German unity, Tisch could end up being the only one to face trial...
...since the government now owned the firm's loans and most other assets. Owners of Bank of New England stock, which fell from $9 a share a year ago to about 50 cents a share just before the bankruptcy, saw their investments vanish. The losers included CBS president Laurence Tisch and his brother Preston, who held some 500,000 shares they acquired last year as part of a contrarian strategy of investing in troubled banks in the hope of a rebound...
...founder. Her book charts the trajectory of Paley's extraordinary career, from his purchase of a small group of radio stations in 1928 through his nurturing of CBS to become America's pre-eminent broadcast organization to his long, long goodbye and final, reluctant embracing of new owner Laurence Tisch. But in stark contrast to the encomiums written and uttered after his death last month, Smith's biography cuts a broadcast titan down to 21-in. size. Maybe smaller...