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...industry's hottest segment at the moment is skin-care products, with Dallas-based Mary Kay Cosmetics Inc. the growth leader: 1981 sales were $235 million, a 41% rise over 1980. Though the firm uses a direct-sales approach similar to Avon's, Company Founder Mary Kay Ash has concentrated almost entirely for the past 19 years on skin-care products, as opposed to cosmetics-style makeup. Consequently, the firm now finds itself in a timely and profitable mesh with the American healthand-fitness craze. The company has also built a large and loyal female sales force...
Last week, however, the phoenix returned to ash, probably not to rise again. Owner Robert Weingarten, a former stockbroker and publisher of the investment journal Financial World, who had lost $3 million on SR since taking over in 1980, ordered a halt on the issues at the printers and dismissed the remaining two dozen members of an already reduced staff. His sad conclusion: SR was doomed without an unaffordable injection of at least $5 million for circulation and promotion. For months he had tried to merge with another magazine, to sell SR, or even to give it away. Potential buyers...
When officers arrived at the center, located at 6 Ash St. the 35 year old man saw them and fled on foot toward the Common Officers chased him through the neighborhood and the park, eventually apprehending him on Mass Ave, near the Science Center...
...Ford Motor Co., Thomas Watson of IBM or Ray Kroc of McDonald's, they "have great symbolic and mythic value within the cultures of their companies." Employees are proud to be connected with these magical figures, say the authors, and draw strength and courage from them. Mary Kay Ash, who overcame severe arthritis to found Mary Kay Cosmetics, uses that achievement to inspire her salespeople...
...much debris as its Yankee rival. But as Volcanologist Wendell Duffield of the U.S. Geological Survey notes, "At Mount St. Helens the barrel of the cannon was pointed laterally. At El Chichón it was pointed straight up." The result: the Mexican volcano injected much more dust, ash and sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, where the particles would be wafted high enough (at least 18 miles) to be carried in a westerly direction by prevailing high-altitude winds. Thus far, the cloud has been spotted over Hawaii, Japan, the Indian Ocean and Africa. U-2s have also detected traces...