Word: addison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many as 6 million are expected to take the plunge this year. Since publishers estimate that new computer owners will buy up to ten books a year, it does not take a computer to recognize the scope of the market. Says Joyce Copland, director of marketing at Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.: "You could probably print napkins with the word computer on them and sell them like crazy...
...Carol L. Addison Sioux Falls...
...senior was being voted "most cynical." Still lacking a nickname, Contemporary Artist Frank Stella, 46, returned to the school at Andover, Mass., where he first got a taste for art. The occasion was the opening of an exhibition of his and other artists' work at the Addison Gallery of American Art, the only full-scale museum in the country run by a secondary school. "That's the advantage the wealthy have. They don't have to go far to see great art," says Stella, managing a little cynicism...
...most of the public, and probably to many of her colleagues, Woodruff took a big step down. But as she contends in her newly published autobiography, "This Is Judy Woodruff at the White House " (Addison-Wesley; $12.95), covering her beat can be a stunted form of journalism. For a TV network reporter, who needs to worry about pictures at the expense of time for briefing and nuance, the problems are especially acute. Woodruff particularly chafed at "staging stakeouts along the White House driveway in boiling heat or pouring rain or sub-zero dawn, never knowing when a news subject...
Japanese management techniques will not reverse America's economic decline. Neither will obsessive number crunching or strategic planning. O.K., so what will? Strong corporate cultures, that's what. Such is the blunt message of Corporate Cultures (Addison-Wesley; 242 pages; $14.95), a lively dissection of American business winners written by Terrence E. Deal of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Allan A. Kennedy, a Boston-based consultant. Executives, say Deal and Kennedy, must recognize that "a strong culture has almost always been the driving force behind continuing success in American business...