Word: vought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...built the conglomerates were vastly different from the reigning generation of bosses. They were classic outsiders--non-Eastern, non-American, non-Wasp and non-Ivy. Rebels such as James Ling, founder of Ling-Temco-Vought, Charles Bluhdorn of Gulf & Western Industries (satirized as Engulf & Devour) and Harold Geneen of International Telephone and Telegraph stormed America's corporate towers even as students and protesters were laying siege to the nation's ivory towers...