1. He rose to be a great captain of industry. 2. Before the end of the century one of its graduates had risen to be chancellor and in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries several others reached similar heights. 3. Also rising were shares of Iomega Corp., which signed a licensing agreement with Matsushita Communication Industrial Co. to produce its high-capacity Zip disk drive for computers. 4. At Billboard, he rose to be head of consumer publishing and director of Far Eastern affairs. 5. Beginning as a social worker at New England Medical Center, Bailis rose to be associate director. 6. After serving in the Coast Guard during World War II, Walliser rose to be, among other things, a high-ranking executive of the Mutual Broadcasting System. 7. Bush rose to be president of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. 8. Bush rose to be president of DKE, beating out, among others, his friend Roland W. Betts, later an eminently successful businessman. 9. But he also played the seniority game and rose to be chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee before the Democrats regained control. 10. But something -- rising profits were no doubt part of it -- persuaded stock market investors not to bail out. |