Word: welched
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University in 1970 with a degree in English, is a writer too, but of a different temper. In recent years he has produced stories and poems. Stuffed somewhere in a drawer, say friends, is an unpublished novel about baseball. "He's a man of few words," says Mary Ann Welch, a friend in Schenectady. "So it all comes out in his writing, very detailed and descriptive...
...such hit shows as Friends--sought to get out of her NBC contract by charging sexual harassment against the network's top West Coast executive, Don Ohlmeyer. McDermott's charges have been seen by some as a cynical ploy to free her for the ABC job. Insiders say Jack Welch, chairman of NBC's parent, General Electric, even contacted Eisner personally to complain about ABC's role in the episode...
...idea was born last winter, when most of his troops were still digging in for the first 100 days. Gingrich was already worrying about maintaining momentum. So he invited small groups of CEOS--including Jack Welch of General Electric, Jack Smith from General Motors and the Business Roundtable chairman John Snow of CSX--to dinner in a first-floor dining room in the Capitol. The executives had all presided over major downsizing in their companies, and all drew the same lesson when the bloodbath was over: they wished they had done more...
...PRIZE UP FOR GRABS, TED Turner's cable empire, was so enviable that two of America's most fearsome bosses tried to make pre-emptive bids for it. Both made their proposals in secret. First came General Electric's Jack Welch, who pitched a dramatic cost-cutting plan. Then, at almost the last minute, came Fox chief Rupert Murdoch, who offered Turner the chance to write his own ticket...
...would say about five out of 20 customers come from the new Kinko's," Welch said. "They say it's a nice place and everything but the prices are a little out of whack...