Over the last two years, the two men who successfully turned the core Gucci brand around -- the chief executive Domenico De Sole and the designer Tom Ford -- have made 11 acquisitions in an effort to make the company into a multibrand powerhouse to rival LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton.
As Boyne USA grew, Mr. Kircher broke new ground in 1965 -- turning the core business into an all-seasons operation with golf links, hotels and cross-country trails beckoning hikers.
Before becoming beset with legal difficulties, Lee Ho-Jin was known mostly for successfully turning the core business he inherited from his father into a diversified group with financial, media and leisure components.
In an effort to turn the corner in its troubled core business, General Motors is eager to end its financial obligations to Delphi, the former auto parts unit it spun off in 1999.
If both countries achieve that, they would be able to establish a close co-operation for the leadership of the eurozone, which would in turn become the core of the EU.
A new song, "Heavenly... (Good Feeling)," criticized war in hackneyed terms that could turn the most hard-core dove into a hawk: "Why is it anyone has to die?/ Did they ever ask you why?" There were a few exceptions, notably "Kiss From a Rose," perhaps his best known song, an epic ballad full of sweeping melodies, unexpected shifts in phrases and fearlessly overblown lyrics.
So why then would Yahoo! want to turn over the core of its business to another company–and a potential rival at that?
We now turn to the core part of our analysis, where we study the relationship between the individuals' ranking on the ethnic persistence and assimilation scales, and their revealed risk proclivity controlling for a number of other determinants.
Our belief was that the national scale of our operation provided Panera the opportunity to turn that core competency against a societal ill and uniquely make a difference toward addressing the "cause" of food insecurity.
