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Friedrich Karl Flick is the reclusive West German owner of a $4 billion industrial empire, a steel, chemical and paper manufacturer that has been controlled by his family for 77 years. His father Friedrich Flick was convicted at Nuremberg of war crimes and served five years in jail before his death in 1972. Last week Flick, 58, announced that he will sell his company to Deutsche Bank. "The decision has been difficult for me," he said. The sale price was estimated to be about $2 billion, which makes it the largest takeover in West German history. Deutsche Bank immediately announced...
...meeting every Wednesday at 8:30, for instance. They may not need one every week, or they may need one every day. But it doesn't make sense to hold regular meetings with no agenda." Alas, little hope is in sight. Laments Half: "America leads the world not in steel or textiles but in meetings. The problem is, how do you export meetings?" There will be a meeting next Thursday at 8:30 a.m. to discuss that subject...
...were available, according to the text. In that year, Roman hero Scipio Africanus celebrated his victory over arch-rival Hannibal with a clean shave and from there on, progress has been steady in helping man's continuing battle against the beard: in the mid-1100s Arab engineers introduced the steel razor, the 17th-century European Reformation brought "a clean-shaven look" along with a new approach to eternal salvation, and in 1903 the first Gillette safety razor was introduced...
...force-of-nature theme. He looks like a huge monster; he acts like a real monster. What else can we conclude but that he is a real monster? He is not some force that has sprung up to teach mankind a lesson (that man's buildings need more reinforced steel?) and then disappear when the message has been sent...
Stylistically, "Mona" recaptures the simple sadness of the "Sweet Baby James" album. Indeed, the listener has to strain to hear the steel pedal and the satirical lilt and choke in James's voice. All in all, it's one of the funniest songs Taylor has ever written...