Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...struggle for control of the Baltic Republics in the Soviet Union has shown that full-blown greed, competition and vicious take-overs are not the sole province of Drexel Burnham. The secession of the Republic of Lithuania from the Soviet Union promises to be bigger than the break-up of AT&T. Corporate raiders beware--Soviet President Mikail S. Gorbachev may soon be the new Carl Icahn...
...want the storm of civil war and insurrection to sweep us away, then the contras must disarm," he said last week. While initially gracious in defeat, the Sandinista leader has since turned recalcitrant. Besides demanding that the contras demobilize immediately, Ortega & Co. have publicly insisted on the Sandinistas' retaining control of the 70,000-member army and the Interior Ministry even after the new government is sworn in April 25. In its last days, the defeated regime is also moving to enact sweeping laws that would turn public property over to Sandinista officials and give immunity for all unprosecuted crimes...
...Arye Gross), naturally keeps trying to mediate fraternal fractiousness. None can imagine why their father Fred (Alan Arkin) insists that they all are needed to perform a single task: pick up a perfectly preserved 1954 Cadillac convertible in Detroit and deliver it (despite speed traps, accidents and fights for control of its radio dial) to him in Florida unscathed and on time for their mother's birthday. But Fred unconsciously knows what movie storytellers have always known: if you force a disparate group of males together for a journey, they will, as they surmount its obstacles, achieve what Fred...
...Bonwit Teller department-store chains. Such troubled but solvent corporations as Wang Laboratories, the Lowell, Mass., computer maker that laid off more than 1,500 workers last year, have hired "workout" advisers to help pare down their debt. By pursuing a workout instead of bankruptcy, management can maintain control of the company and generally reorganize faster. "There's more room to maneuver outside of court," says Richard Feintuch, a partner in Wachtell, Lipton, a leading Wall Street law firm...
...incompetent or unconscious at the end of your life, someone will make the choice," says Fenella Rouse, executive director of the Society for the Right to Die. "If you don't want to make that decision, fine. But this is one of the ways of retaining control." Two groups, the Society for the Right to Die and Concern for Dying, both located in New York City, have distributed millions of living-will forms over the past 20 years. Other organizations, including the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys in Tucson, provide information on how to locate lawyers who specialize...