Word: unorthodox
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DIED. Siegmund Warburg, 80, energetic German-born banker who startled the closed-door world of London merchant banking with his unorthodox innovations; in London. The cultured scion of a centuries-old Jewish financial dynasty, Warburg fled Nazi Germany for London in 1934. In 1939 he founded his own trading company and in 1946 his own bank. Combining Teutonic discipline with new ideas, he managed the first U.S. corporate-bond issue in Europe and masterminded Tube Investments' and Reynolds Metals' takeover of British Aluminium...
...between the country's major parties following the Sept. 17 breakup of Helmut Schmidt's ruling center-left coalition. It marked the first time in West Germany's postwar history that a change in leadership was brought about by the use of the "constructive" procedure.* The unorthodox method of the changing of the guard in Bonn gave an element of instability and uncertainty to the fledgling Kohl government, which has tentatively promised national elections for next March 6. Kohl's new coalition is untested, and his Christian Democratic Union has not been overwhelmingly successful in recent...
Calvi's real problems had begun in 1978, when the Bank of Italy conducted an extensive audit of his financial empire. The examiners noted unorthodox operations and complained that Ambrosiano affiliates were carrying out "all types of operations outside of controls." Ominously enough, the investigators also noted that they could not separate Ambrosiano holdings from Vatican holdings because of the complex interlocking relationships between them...
...Laertes is beautifully spoken, with plenty of variety and modulation. Yet he can summon up power when demanding of the King where his father Polonius is (even threateningly laying a sword on the King's shoulder), or when voicing his eagerness to engage Hamlet in combat. This is an unorthodox Laertes, but Sarandon has the skills to make it work. I could not help thinking how this production would have been improved if Walken and Sarandon had exchanged roles...
...work of adhoc appointment committees--composed of professors administrators and outside experts--and not infrequently vetoes a department's nomination. Just three months ago for example Bok rejected the Sociology Department's recommendation of tenure for Alfred Stepan a Yale University specialist in Latin American politics. Stepan--considered an unorthodox sociologist--was recommended nearly unanimously by a department search committee but Bok had lingering reservations about his record...