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...government of treason, civil war and dictatorship." Peking has often refused to rule out the possibility of using force to capture the island. But last week China seized the occasion of the forthcoming 70th anniversary of the fall of the Manchu dynasty to step up a propaganda campaign to woo and win Taiwan. In an unprecedented offer, Peking invited the leaders in Taiwan to "share power" with the Communists in a reunified China...
...signed a $5 million contract with Westinghouse to fund the Robotics Institute, granting Westinghouse first patent rights on any research findings. Dartmouth College receives $75,000 a year from DePuy, a medical manufacturer, to develop prosthetic hip replacements. Columbia University has hired a director of corporate relations just to woo more corporate...
Despite the best-laid compensation plans, some companies can always woo away competitors' employees with a job offer that cannot be refused. "There is probably not enough money around to guarantee that a person won't leave," says William James, a partner in the Chicago office of Hewitt Associates, a management consulting firm. "A valued executive can likely get his package matched somewhere else." Thomas Wyman, 51, left his post as vice chairman at Pillsbury-and some complex golden handcuffs-for the CBS presidency last year after the company offered him a $1 million signing bonus, a yearly...
...text, Russian Nobleman Nikolai Rezanov sailed into San Francisco harbor in 1806 intending to trade with California's Spanish colonizers. Instead he fell in love with Concha, the daughter of the commandant of San Francisco. As Rezanov's ships Juno and Avos waited, he set out to woo the 16-year-old beauty. For his seduction scene, Bolshoi Ballet Choreographer Vladimir Vasiliev designed a pas de deux that was conspicuously erotic by stuffy Soviet standards. Yelena Shanina (Concha), a Goldie Hawn lookalike, and Nikolai Karachentsev (Rezanov), a dark, dour figure, embraced on the brightly lit, transparent Plexiglas stage...
...president, Silverman was responsible for much more than prime time. There were affiliates to woo, newsmen to mollify, boardroom games to play. "Silverman tried to be a one-man band," notes Perry Lafferty, NBC's senior vice president of programs and talent on the West Coast. "But he encountered a string of bad luck-a crucial ingredient in this business. He had to cope with an actors' strike, a writers' strike and the loss of the Moscow Olympics last year." The Olympics boycott cost NBC a write-off of $33.7 million-and an invaluable opportunity to promote...