Word: wolfs
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Speaking for much of the local community, Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolf insists fast food restaurants would destroy the sanctity and unique character of Harvard Square. The presence of high-profit fast food chains in the Square would drive up rents and, she argues, force the smaller, family-owned restaurants and stores out of business...
...have a hard time keeping those businesses that don't make a high profit in the square," says Wolf. "If you have to make piles of profits to pay the rents, it's hard to have a shoemaker or a struggling artist...
America's latest export to Britain may be the shareholder revolt. Last week angry institutional investors prompted the unceremonious ejection of Sir Roland Smith as chairman of British Aerospace. Smith had come under criticism for a lone-wolf management style and moves into such recession-vulnerable businesses as real estate and automaking. As profits went into a tailspin during the past six months, Smith sought to raise fresh funds with a new stock issue. But word leaked to the press, and shareholders feared a dilution of their stock. The investor backlash inspired the company's board to dump Smith. Such...
...statistics were kept for such things, Markus Wolf might be said to have had the longest winning streak in the annals of espionage. For more than three decades before his retirement in 1987, he ran a succession of agents in the nerve centers of the West, and nowhere more effectively than in West Germany. Yet last week, that rampage through the history of spycraft appeared to have ended in bright morning sunshine at the village of Bayerisch Gmain on the Austrian border. There, nearly a year after German unification, Markus Wolf, now 68, surrendered...
...committee, which also includes Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn and Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolf, discussed proposals to curb unemployment and redirect federal funds from defense to urban centers, Dinkins said at a press conference before his speech...