Word: badly
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...tube baby. The reason: the two had yet to provide adequate details of their achievement. Last week, however, the New York Fertility Research Foundation honored Steptoe for that very achievement. At a Manhattan press conference, Steptoe labeled the Barren Foundation's action "the most utterly disgraceful exhibition of bad manners I've ever come across in the scientific world...
Firestone has lived this year with slumping profits, a falling stock price and bad publicity over alleged defects in its 500-series radial tires. Last week it signed a pact with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration promising to recall and replace up to 7.5 million of the radials, which are no longer being manufactured. After tax write-offs, the company expects the recall to cost $135 million, or more than its $110 million profit last year...
Firestone still, faces a Government fine, countless lawsuits over the 500-series tires, and the possibility that the bad publicity may deflate sales of its new, different 721-series tires. Borg-Warner seems prepared to accept these risks, but the deal may still not go through. Washington trustbusters could easily challenge a marriage that would be one of the largest in U.S. business history...
Successful as the company has been, the market is so mercurial that no cosmetics firm can ever really be safe; a bad mistake can be ruinous. A classic example is Max Factor's "Just Call Me Maxi" fragrance, introduced last year to compete with Charlie. It came about four years too late, as taste was at the point of switching back to romance and mystery, and bombed so badly that Factor plunged deep into the red; the debacle is widely believed to have cost President Sam Kalish, a Revlon alumnus...
...best directors around, and if he walks slowly these days, you would never know it from the staging of this, his 119th production. No one can move actors around faster, get more laughs out of a joke or slide so gracefully over a play's weak spots. The bad news is that the weak spots in Winning Isn't Everything, which opened last week at Manhattan's Hudson Guild Theater, are more like potholes, and even Abbott and an able cast occasionally stumble...