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...Design. He says his academic immersion in the subject had nothing to do with it, but the 13 pictures he produced for Swan Lake are stylistically among the most orthodox of his career. They could trace their lineage to the Scribner's children's classics of half a century ago, when the pictures of nonpareils like N.C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish graced the tissue-covered plates. Still, Van Allsburg retains his special dream aura in the brooding shadows in which the swans float, in the surprising sight of pigs being led through the door of a formal bedroom...
Less than a decade ago, Xerox was in serious trouble. The company whose name is synonymous with copying machines was steadily losing customers. As Japan's Ricoh, Canon and other new competitors muscled onto Xerox's turf, the company slumped from an 86% share of the world market for basic copiers in 1974 to just 16.6% by 1984. When a shaken Xerox finally studied its competitors more closely, the company discovered their secret weapon: the Japanese firms hewed to rigorous quality standards. Taking a hard-eyed look at its operations, Xerox discovered that it was slowly destroying itself with sloppiness...
...rules of the game will keep changing, and the standards will keep getting higher. Says Xerox Chairman Kearns: "We realize that we are in a race without a finish line. As we improve, so does our competition. Five years ago, we would have found that disheartening. Today we find it invigorating." That kind of ambition is essential, because U.S. manufacturers still have considerable catching up to do. If they are successful, the MADE IN THE U.S.A. label will once again stand for excellence, not just sentimental patriotism...
...Rockefeller Group deal is designed to diversify the holdings in the trusts that John D. Rockefeller Jr. created in 1934 for his heirs. As the Manhattan real estate boom swelled the value of the Rockefeller Group's properties from 25% of the trust's assets a few years ago to 50% today, trust administrators saw the need to spread the money around...
...long ago, Christians who were homosexual devoted much of their energy to cloaking that fact. Today not only have many of them come out of the closet, but they are also staging rallies, disrupting worship services and aggressively demanding church endorsement of their life-styles. For gay liberationists, nothing would better epitomize moral acceptance than for the churches to ordain open, practicing homosexuals as clergy. The result is a bitterly fought battle over the acceptance of gay ministers now being waged in both the Roman Catholic Church and mainline Protestant groups...