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...About 59 per cent of voters supported banning extraction in the Yasuní 43-ITT oil block, which is a biodiversity hotspot home to two isolated tribes....
...An extreme case was Harold Geneen at ITT, who converted what had once been a telecommunications company into a conglomerate; Geneen believed that his management skills could be applied to virtually any industry...
...In their heyday, conglomerates like ITT and RCA drew profits and cash from disparate subsidiaries back to the centre, assuming that their senior executives and strategists had the wit to reinvest them wisely...
...ITT split in 1995 and Tyco broke up after a scandal in 2006. Yet each had become big enough by 2011 to split themselves up again....
...He creates sisal furniture — hairy, characterful pieces that bring to mind Cousin Itt — sold internationally, such as at London’s Sarah Myerscough Gallery....
...At least two publicly listed companies (ITT Technical Institute and Corinthian Colleges) declared bankruptcy. Now, you may think many for-profit colleges were simply frauds (I think this)....
...ITT became the subject of a federal antitrust investigation that the company would settle....
...“The ITT idea was brilliant in theory but in practice it was never going to work,” reflects Enrique Morales, a representative of Pachakutik, an Ecuadorean indigenous movement....
...Still, Rohatyn weathered his own controversies, most notably his relationship with ITT Corp, originally a telecoms company that would become the archetypal conglomerate under chief executive Harold Geneen...
...They spend much of the scene prowling and leaning on prosthetic appendages attached to their arms, while a hairy character resembling Cousin Itt from The Addams Family roams nearby....
...Think Cousin-Itt-at-cocktail-hour. And then there’s the fluid shirt and trousers with a scrunched-up brown paper print, taken from the bags in which the team’s lunch is delivered....
...Harold Geneen, architect of the conglomerate ITT, wrote a book called Managing that was puffed up with self-congratulation just before the conglomerate wave crashed to earth....
...furnish their homes with enigmatic conversation pieces such as the Brazilian Campana brothers’ Cabana bookcase, its circular shelves hidden behind a curtain of hairlike brown raffia, resembling Cousin Itt...
...For just as the lobbying of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company was able to bring down the government in Iran and United Fruit that of Guatemala in the 1950s; just as ITT lobbied to bring down Salvador Allende...
...Harold Geneen built ITT in the 1960s and 1970s into a conglomerate that eventually controlled more than 2,000 business units worldwide, from Sheraton hotels to Wonder Bread....
...“Of course, the idea of a conscience committee playing David to ITT’s Goliath and forcing its will on the mammoth conglomerate is laughable,” he wrote, because the job of a money manager was simply “to make...
...It was too reminiscent of the 1960s era of reckless diversification by sprawling companies such as ITT and Litton Industries, which ended in their disintegration....
...During the heat of the ITT battle, Bollenbach publicly described Rand Araskog, the target’s chief executive, as “a weenie”....
...I do not have Rapunzel hair but rather a style that falls past my shoulders and over my face, resembling Cousin Itt from The Addams Family ....
...Pearson, down 7.7 per cent to 797p, was also affected by news this week that the for-profit college ITT Technical Institute had shut down its 130 campuses....
...From there it passed further into the hospitality mainstream, being acquired by ITT Sheraton, which was itself subsumed into Starwood in 1998....
...It is a pattern that goes back at least as far as the US conglomerate boom of the late 1960s, when deal-addicted groups such as ITT and Leasco bestrode the stock markets, only to go into sharp decline a...
...Two years after ITT divested its majority stake in STC, which by then had gained its own London stock market listing, Corfield made his most audacious move....
...Mr Sternlicht took over Westin Resorts & Hotels Worldwide and ITT Corp, which owned the Sheraton chain and the St Regis hotel in New York....
...These include Svenska Cellulosa, the Swedish company that was embroiled in a scandal last year over the use of private jets, and ITT Educational Services, which the US regulator has charged with fraud....
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