Word: adds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what is there to offer the party faithful at the Dallas Convention Center and millions of television viewers? Desperate to add spice to their celebration of the Administration's first term, G.O.P. strategists briefly considered pumping up their mild ideological divisions into full-fledged floor battles. But the idea was eventually rejected as hokey. Says Washington Lobbyist William Timmons, who has played a major role in every G.O.P. Convention since 1968: "We will have a clean, crisply paced, well-managed demonstration of Republican unity... There will be some powerful messages, well presented. But whether anyone will listen-well...
...also deep differences over other issues. Labor supporters were angered last week when, with backing from the Shamir government, four Jewish families established a new settlement in the town of Hebron. Labor favors a freeze on settlements in the occupied territories, and the surprise move was certain to add another stumbling block to unity talks...
...Sears strategy for expansion into financial services is bold, and Sears is now aggressively going after this market. While it has let go a few analysts, Deari Witter nonetheless plans to add 1,200 account executives this year, at a time when other brokers are holding firm or cutting back. Merrill Lynch, for example, has laid off 1,000 people, and 1,500 more are scheduled to follow by year...
...card overnight could be a major tool for collecting deposits, selling certificates of deposit and maintaining checking accounts." Sears is also actively looking to buy more savings and loan associations to add to the one it owns in California. It was a bidder in 1983 for Chicago's First Federal Savings and Loan, which was finally bought by Citicorp...
...Sears was more like a far-flung feudal kingdom than a smooth-running company. Store managers ordered goods in a haphazard way and sometimes ignored merchandising strategies planned at headquarters. Telling cut costs and raised sales by imposing discipline and direction from the Sears Tower in Chicago. To add spark to the company, he eased out complacent old-line executives and appointed younger, fresher lieutenants to key positions. Says Telling: "It was very lonely. What I did had to be done, but I knew I wouldn't be very popular...