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Those who knew Keating during his glory days evoke a complex, highly intelligent and driven executive who often worked 18-hour days. Keating made unmerciful demands on subordinates. He leaned hard on top-flight law and accounting firms; a number, including Ernst & Young, Jones, Day and Kaye, Scholer, together paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle claims that they helped defraud investors. The firms denied any wrongdoing...
Under Berry's leadership, HDS became a top-flight college dining program, claiming the 1996 Ivy Award for the best non-commercial food service in the country...
...challenge faces all coaches and administrators in Ivy athletics: How to forge a winning combination out of two small groups--division one athletes and top-flight students...
...like one meeting, there is often another somewhere else nearby. "People vote with their feet," says Peter. "At some point a lot of groups won't be A.A. groups anymore. I won't be in those meetings." Jim, a 30-year veteran who is a partner in a top-flight Boston law firm, remains sanguine. "Right from the beginning, A.A. was a cross section that reflected what was happening in society," he says. "A.A. is strong enough to survive...
...list prices of the Sega and 3DO machines and only slightly higher than the $250 price Nintendo has been promising for the Ultra 64. (The Atari Jaguar player, at $159, would appear to be the best bargain of the lot, but the beleaguered company has had trouble attracting top-flight game developers...