Word: federico
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...define a concrete economic plan, the situation seems bound to deteriorate further. Even Argentina's generals, who have never been shy about staging coups before, appear reluctant to intervene for fear of saddling themselves with the blame for economic ruin. "We are in a process of decline," says Federico Zorraquin, president of the Banco Commercial del Norte. "No one knows where it will...
...slambang political fight, complete with barrages of print and TV ads, one crafted by George Bush's campaign guru Roger Ailes. Colorado Governor Roy Romer and Denver Mayor Federico Pena politicked incessantly around town. When the vote came in, several hundred giddy campaign workers shouted themselves hoarse in a jammed downtown hotel ballroom. The turnout, 41% of registered voters, would have been respectable for a congressional or gubernatorial election. In fact, the balloting was a special election in which Denver residents last Tuesday voted 63% to 37% to build a $2.3 billion new airport -- the first to be constructed...
...wire market baskets, filing trays and teapots. But since then the company has become one of the world's most powerful advertising firms. The WPP conglomerate has already swallowed up the New York City-based JWT Group, which included two leading U.S. agencies, J. Walter Thompson and Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein. The architect of WPP's remarkable transformation is Martin Sorrell, 44, the most feared raider to set foot on Madison Avenue...
Sorrell's takeover of Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein, which was part of the JWT purchase, has proved more troublesome. Nine months after the deal, co- founder Dick Lord and five top executives walked out and formed a rival firm that they staffed with their former colleagues. Today both sides are mired in a court battle over the takeover and defection. Says Lord: "Martin is a man of property. He believes that the ends justify the means...
Stroessner toppled Federico Chaves in 1954. The last unrest in the military occurred in 1962, when a cadet was slain outside the capital...