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...Revolution in the Making: Lessons for Managers in Service Industries, Regina F. Herzlinger, Living Room, Cronkhite Graduate Center, 6 Ash St., Cambridge, wine and cheese reception at 6, dinner and program...
...norm among publicly traded companies, but Mary Kay (1984 sales: $278 million) does not have to worry. It will no longer be listed on any exchange. The company's directors last week agreed to sell the firm for $300 million to a group headed by Chairman Mary Kay Ash and her son Richard Rogers, the president...
...Ash, who founded the cosmetics distributor in 1963, became a multimillionaire after selling stock to the public in 1968. In recent years, though, she has wanted to return the firm to family ownership. "When a company is publicly held, you live in a fishbowl," said Monty Barber, a Mary Kay spokesman...
...Occasional Prose, fugitive pieces range from reportage to literary criticism to the comparative values of wood ash, manure and seaweed in the garden. All of the works are reminiscent of, in Stendhal's memorable phrase, "a mirror walking along a main road." McCarthy's reflections begin with a recollection of her colleague Philip Rahv, longtime editor of Partisan Review. Thousands of words have been spent discussing the unrepentant old radical; this obituary captures him in three sentences: "He never learned to swim . . . He would immerse his body in the alien element but declined or perhaps feared to move with...
Most U.S. businessmen are convinced that the Japanese stack the trade deck outrageously against them. Chicago-based FMC sells soda ash, used in glassmaking and other processes, for $70 to $75 a ton in the U.S.; the product sells for $240 to $250 a ton in Japan. But FMC and other U.S. makers are allowed to supply only 200,000 of Japan's annual requirement of 1.4 million tons. Says FMC Chairman Robert H. Malott: "Soda ash is soda ash is soda ash. If that market were truly open, we would have...