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Singer developed a line of electronic cash registers that, hooked up to backroom computers, would help department stores, supermarkets and other retailers keep track of sales and inventories faster and more accurately than ever before. Sears, Roebuck and J.C. Penney bought the line, but Singer has had unexpected cost overruns in meeting contract specifications for the equipment, and the recession discouraged other would-be buyers. As a result, the Information Systems division lost $19.6 million last year. So many managers lost their jobs in trying to turn it around that company employees nicknamed a special group of offices set aside...
...policy change would help), and there probably never were any rules against undesirables. Still, the Pudding cast is one of the last all-male--this year it's all-white, too--enterprises at Harvard, and it usually relies heavily on a clubby, ivy-covered-boys-in-the-ivy-covered-backroom appeal, whose one fundamental, never-failing joke is that women--portrayed by men whose condescension is a secondary joke--are inherently ridiculous...
...also in 1969, whether at the command of his mother's genes, a primordial need to match his father, or a simple, old-fashioned lust for power, that Brown switched from backroom strategy to running his own campaign...
Resignation, rather than impeachment, is then considered the best solution to the country's crisis. For now, much of the backroom talk among Republicans centers around the best way to approach Nixon with the request for resignation...
...Hustler. 1961. Incomparable. Robert Rossen's peerless study of backroom pool-hall life features surpassing performances by Paul Newman as Fast Eddy Felson, Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats, and George C. Scott and Piper Laurie as the sharks' supporters...