Word: brennans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pair of 5-to-4 decisions, the court ruled that officials in Grand Rapids and New York City may not send public school teachers into parochial schools to provide remedial or accelerated classes for disadvantaged or bright children. Justice William Brennan, who wrote both majority opinions, concluded in the Grand Rapids case that by physically entering parochial schools, public school teachers are supplying not only a direct subsidy but also that "crucial symbolic link between government and religion" that the Constitution does not allow. The New York ruling will affect parochial school participation in a 20-year-old federal education...
...away, Hollywood has just begun filming a movie based on the game. The first clues fans will want, of course, are who plays the familiar players: Lesley Ann Warren (Miss Scarlett), Martin Mull (Colonel Mustard), Madeline Kahn (Mrs. White), Michael McKean (Mr. Green), Christopher Lloyd (Professor Plum) and Eileen Brennan (Mrs. Peacock). These six suspects are joined in the movie by six new characters led by Butler Tim Curry. The plot is said to contain enough hints for figuring out who did what where. But until Clue is released early next year, nobody is squealing -- certainly not the actors...
...soon slipped into the red again. The company was too big, too mismanaged, too out of tune with what consumers wanted. In 1981 Stephen Pistner, president of Minneapolis' Dayton- Hudson department store chain and a retailing wizard, was brought in to turn Montgomery Ward around. He hired Brennan, then chief executive of the Sav-A- Stop outlets in Jacksonville, to help him in the task...
...Pistner-Brennan team moved to reorganize the chain, eliminating 23,000 jobs, reducing the number of retail stores from 365 to 322, and cutting distribution centers from 150 to 33. In 1983 the company earned a paltry $40 million on $6 billion in sales, and last year it made $54 million on almost the same amount. In contrast, Sears earned $1.5 billion on sales of $38.8 billion. After launching the Montgomery Ward reorganization, Brennan left to run Household Merchandising, the company that embraces T.G.&Y. and Ben Franklin variety stores. The president's job at Montgomery Ward opened...
...Brennan plans to push forward the policies he helped initiate at Montgomery Ward. Says he: "I'm very excited about going back and continuing the strategies that we started when I was there before. Our real focus is on merchandise, improving the products we offer." To make Montgomery Ward more profitable, he will probably reduce the payroll still further from the present 78,000 and perhaps close as many as 300 of the 2,099 catalog outlets. He will probably concentrate the firm's efforts in the Midwest, its strongest region...