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Edwardes left in November 1982, and will become chairman of International Computers Ltd. this spring. His legacy to BL includes a talented management team, among them his successor, Sir Austin Bide, 68, and John Egan, 43, who was recruited in 1980 from Massey-Ferguson, the farm-equipment maker, to head BL's sputtering Jaguar division. In 1980 Jaguar was losing $1.5 million a week, and its sleek models had acquired a well-deserved reputation for shoddy workmanship and unreliability. Egan cut Jaguar's work force by nearly 30% and helped improve labor relations by holding family gatherings...
Shoppers now coolly wait for prices to come down before buying. If they do not see what they want at the right price, they bide their time until prices drop. Says Ann Colwell, 28, a Dallas publicist: "It's a consumer-oriented Christmas," as if somehow it rarely had been until this year. She is waiting for Evan-Picone suits at Sanger Harris to go on sale. When they do, she will buy. Said Martin Tolep, economist for F.W. Woolworth: "By waiting, they're going to make some retailers frantic...
...They [Stricker and Wiley] haven't come up against anybody who has pushed them real hard at the start," Babington said, adding that he didn't give them specific instructions on where to make their move. "There wasn't a strategy to bide one's time and then hit it hard," he explained...
...news from the Bide-A-Wee home for semiretired movie stars of the '50s is that, all things considered, most of the folks are as lively as crickets. Liz and Rock, Kim and Tony and, of course, dear Angela, all seem enthusiastic about putting their slightly thickened selves on public display so that older members of the audience can check their memories of what once was with what now is, and youngsters can peer quizzically at their parents and speculate on the basis for such odd enthusiasms...
...attracted to a handsome woman full of culture babble. Alas, he must bide his time until his best friend, who just happens to be married, breaks off his relationship with her. One day he does. She takes her dismissal with a chilling display of post-lib schizophrenia: "I'm beautiful, I'm young, I'm highly intelligent, I've got everything going for me except I'm all f-??up . . . I could go to bed with the entire M.I.T. faculty. Shit! Now I lost my contact lens." The sentence runs together like that because her completely contradictory sense...