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...musical lineage. "Crown," says Thomas, "was a pupil of Moritz Rosenthal, and Rosenthal was a pupil of Liszt! Liszt was a pupil of Cherney, and Cherney was a pupil of Beethoven! It's really fun to think that some particular thing that I'm doing, the way I put my hands down on the keyboard, or some musical thought, some way or another comes through that line...
...legendary for lack of management accountability, Chrysler has been making strong moves to tie executive compensation directly to the company's fortunes. Iacocca is pressing top execs to buy stock equivalent in value to their annual salaries. "I want them to feel exposed," he says. "I want them to put pressure on the people to deliver, to get earnings up, to reduce costs." Ironically, the chairman himself sold 95,339 of his 287,205 shares of Chrysler stock last year. That leaves him with more than $3 million in stock -- twice his annual salary...
...keep finding new answers, Rubbia is determined to improve CERN's technology. He plans to boost LEP's power 50% in the next year or two. CERN is also trying to persuade its member nations to put up the money to build a proton-proton collider in the same tunnel with LEP. Called the large had ron collider, it would be four times as powerful as the Tevatron and almost half as forceful as the proposed superconducting supercollider in Texas. Rubbia thinks he can finish the LHC several years ahead of the SSC and thus beat the Americans to many...
...consolidate the transfer of his power base from the party to the newly formed presidency. "He cannot simply turn up at these meetings," said a Soviet spokesman. "He has to prepare for them." Administration officials admitted that the earlier summit allows Gorbachev to send a strong signal, as one put it, "that Lithuania isn't going to stand in the way of better relations...
...purpose was not to argue about "dogma and doctrine," said A.M.E. pastor Cecil Murray, but to "ask what we can do jointly to help take our community back from drugs and crime." Such meetings, says Khallid Abdul Muhammad, special assistant to Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, "put us into a position where black people are now turning to us for leadership...