Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...cannon rounds a minute would blast away from closer range. The battleships Wisconsin and Missouri might chip in with Tomahawk missiles launched from far out in the gulf. "When you concentrate that kind of firepower, you can kill an entire regiment in less than five minutes," says one American general...
During the past few years, however, as one media giant after another merged with a powerful partner, Wasserman apparently became convinced that MCA needed to make a strategic alliance to gain King Kong-like size and access to hoards of cash. Capital Cities bought ABC, General Electric acquired NBC, Murdoch bought Fox, and Time Inc. acquired Warner Communications. As Wasserman reportedly told an MCA shareholder last year, "We're a 200-lb. gorilla in a game with 1,000-lb. gorillas. We've got to become a 1,000-lb. gorilla or get out of the game...
...loss of the Iraqi account to set him back for long. With a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering from the University of Utah, Cardoen first worked in the U.S. and Chile as a mining engineer. He founded the company that bears his name in 1977, after Chile's former President, General Augusto Pinochet, whose repressive government was the object of an international arms-sales boycott, asked local companies to fill the gap. Though arms manufacture has been Cardoen's main business ever since, he also deals in industrial explosives, real estate, cattle, rental cars and aircraft. He owns a small publishing...
FOOTNOTE: *The company's optics division has since been sold to a General Motors subsidiary and renamed Hughes Danbury Optical Systems...
...General Manager: Barbara M. Mrkonic...