Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threat that Sears Chairman Edward Brennan, older brother of Montgomery Ward's Bernard, does not take lightly. Under Brennan, who took over in 1986, the company is beginning a major reorganization of the 8,200-member headquarters staff in Chicago. Layers of management are being reduced so that Sears can respond more quickly to changes in fashions and consumer tastes. Managers responsible for buying different kinds of products will be given more freedom to make swift decisions. Says Michael Bozic, who heads Sears' merchandise group: "We've empowered all of our managers to design the kind of organization they need...
Quote of the Week:"I haven't had this much fun since the pigs ate my brother," said Harvard's Trainer Dick Emerson at a frigid Soldiers Field during Harvard's doubleheader against Norhteastern...
...long piece in Vanity Fair some months ago, Gail Sheehy recounted: Jackson's brother's shady dealings, the finagling at Operation PUSH, allegations of womanizing, his misrepresentations concerning the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., his hailing of Castro and embracing of Arafat, and his lack of any background in politics. To conclude the piece, Sheehy suggested that Jackson was too egotistical to be president...
...poorly paid. "The army is just not fighting back," says a Western diplomat in Addis Ababa. Mengistu himself has been making frequent trips to the north to oversee military operations. But the rebels are said to be gaining ground daily while relief officials watch their distribution lines crumble. Brother Gregory Flynn, who works for the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat, put it this way: "We have trucks, we have planes, we have the food pledges. We have the structure in place, but people will starve because...
Hulce's performance as Nicky is the center of Dominick and Eugene. Nicky's "slowness" is believable, and his unabashed loyalty to and love for his brother make him easy to root for. Hulce also renders Nicky's reactions to encounters with sexuality and with nasty people believable. If you want to see a good performance by the actor who was nominated for an Academy Award for his puerile Mozart, or if you like heart-warming stories with happy endings, then Dominick and Eugene is a film worth seeing...