Word: argus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rubinger returned to Europe to fight the Nazis with Britain's Jewish Brigade. Along the way, two things happened that changed his life. He met his future wife Anni, a concentration- camp survivor who is a TIME picture researcher. Almost as important, he picked up his first camera, an Argus-35, and quickly decided that taking pictures should be his career...
...Wall Street by joining the fray. Chairman Edward Finkelstein, a shrewd, 40-year veteran with the company, had taken the firm private in a $3.7 billion leveraged buyout in 1986. Loaded with debt after that deal, Macy's seemed incapable of takeovers. Says Pavlos Alexandrakis, a retail analyst for Argus Research: "It's the last company you would expect to be out shopping...
...never please the radical left wing. Myonly answer to the criticism is: `What do yousuggest? Do away with [private non-racial schools]or do you start somewhere?" Peter Cartwright,headmaster at the St. Cyprians School, told theCape Town newspaper the Weekend Argus in anarticle called "Togetherness." Cartwright believesthat non-racial schools like his are the beginningof the fight against apartheid...
...Hartwell, whose family has run the Daily Telegraph (circ. 1.2 million) since 1928. In June Hartwell assembled a $156 million package to pay for both modern printing plants and severance for hundreds of his workers. Faced with a money squeeze this month, Hartwell sold a 35% stake to Hollinger Argus, Ltd., a Toronto-based mining firm owned mostly by Conrad Black, a Canadian tycoon whose holdings range from radio stations to supermarkets. Black, who had acquired 14% of the shares in June, ended up winning control of the paper. Though Hartwell remains chairman and editor in chief, Black has appointed...
...protagonist is Eleanor Arroway, director of Project Argus, a Government- sponsored undertaking to comb the universe for alien messages. The time is 1999, when, in Sagan's irrepressibly progressive vision, the President of the U.S. is a woman, and the world's smartest man is a Nigerian. The aliens, however, are stereotypical. By the time their cosmic call is returned, it is clear they are vastly more intelligent and wiser than we are; among other things, they do not seem to have deregulated their telephone system...