Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wall Street investors are fretting over the future of the global colossus, while business strategists ponder what went wrong. Last week Coke named Australian-born Douglas Daft, 56, who runs the company's Asia and Middle East operations, as president and heir- apparent. But that didn't do anything for Coke's stock price, which fell $4.125 a share last Monday on the news of Ivester's retirement--a 6% drop that knocked $9.9 billion off the company's market value--and dropped 75[cents] more by Friday's close...
...letter to Coke's 30,000 employees last week, Ivester pointed to the "soul-searching" that preceded what was clearly a painful decision to abdicate the company throne. In an uncharacteristically melancholy tone, he exhorted the troops to look not toward the travails of the past but the "opportunities" of the future...
...This week DMX joins the list of rappers on a magical, musical search for themselves. Here are the best of their solipsistic tunes and date released...
...walked into an ornate conference room in Hafez Assad's Damascus palace last week, Madeleine Albright stole a quick glance at the door to a nearby bathroom. The only excitement during her previous meeting with the Syrian President had been getting locked in that bathroom until a security agent pried open the door. She'd avoid the room this time, but Albright expected the same demands from Assad that had so far blocked talks with Israel on returning the Golan Heights to Syria. Twenty minutes into the meeting, however, the Secretary of State and her Middle East aide, Dennis Ross...
...chance to get back the Golan Heights, which Israel appropriated in the 1967 Six-Day War. Barak came to power pledging to entice Syria back to the negotiating table. And Clinton, who quickly arranged for Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara to start the talks in Washington this week, was hungry for a foreign policy triumph after the disastrous World Trade Organization conference in Seattle two weeks...