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...other factors. The regime has survived economically so far because of the repeated lenience of the international financial community. At the time of the coup, Bolivia's foreign debt was $1.9 billion, $170 million of which came due in December. Within 10 days a consortium of banks led by Chase Manhattan agreed to postpone the payments. Last Friday, the consortium agreed in principle to reschedule another $460 million, giving Garcia Meza additional breathing space...
...company on the inside. Harvard circuit. Love Story reduced the life of the undergrad to sports and sex. One L demonstrated the collective ego of the Harvard Law School, and The House of God wildly captured the spirit of interns at Beth Israel Hospital. Paper Chase even scamed its way onto TV. There was little territory left for a writer to snatch, so LeBaron now moves us into the classrooms and anatomy labs of Harvard Medical School or, as Samuel Shem called it in House of God. BMS--Best Medical School...
Frederick Hammer, executive vice president in charge of consumer banking at Chase Manhattan, recalls a less happy case: "I brought in a very bright M.B.A. from a highly regarded business school in the Northeast not too long ago, and after a superb performance in a staff position, I was so impressed that I gave him complete responsibility for a small business. He had his own sales force, accounting people, processing group-everything. For about six months I was very pleased with the reports I was getting about how rapidly the business was expanding. As we started to do some more...
When Baryshnikov, 33, was named to the post, he spent the year before his appointment took effect studying the troupe he would inherit from Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith, who had guided it for nearly four decades. Misha had danced with the company and knew its strengths-a rich, eclectic repertory, an unbroken record of presenting some of the world's best dancers. He was also aware of some recent flaws. Performance standards had grown erratic, particularly in the corps; management tended to let dancers succeed or drift without much direction. Recalling that year, Baryshnikov says, "I wanted...
...flawed genius who has long sought-and rarely received-approval from his bosses, Martin has found a warm sun of support to chase the shades from the darker corners of his spirit. He also likes the $1 million promotional campaign that has made Billyball and the man behind it household words all over Northern California. Now with a record-setting beginning, Billy Baseball beams: "The rest of them will be chasing us all season long...