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...days has appeal "in an odd sort of retro-manner," says Jedediah S. Purdy '97, an editor of Perspective who has studied Marx. "One might use the fashion metaphor that it is equivalent to showing up at a party in your '71 easy rider biker gear. It's a cachet of anachronism...
...would have to count a lot higher before you got to QVC. It is one of cable's quieter moneymakers: lots of cash, little cachet. In Diller's first year at QVC, its revenues rose 14%. John Malone, the zillionaire head of Tele- Communications, Inc., had lured Diller to the home-shopping network at the end of 1992, shortly after he left Fox. Perhaps there had been a dispute with Murdoch, his boss, over a Diller request for equity in the company; perhaps he was just tired, as he said, of working for other people...
...famous appearance beside Hillary Rodham Clinton at the President's first address to a joint session of Congress in February 1993, has turned out to be useful. "Both sides need each other," says Felix Rohatyn, a partner at the investment firm Lazard Freres. "The Administration benefits from the reflected cachet of a conservative Republican like Greenspan, whose job is made easier by the deficit-reduction policies and fiscal prudence that Clinton has so far demonstrated." Besides the saxophone, both men have in common a love of policy and statistical minutiae: if Clinton can cite the number of medically uninsured workers...
Hayek may overestimate his reach -- "I am the creator of products, kingdoms and empires," he says -- but he does have expertise at taking a luxury product downscale while preserving its cachet. It was he who came up with the strategy that saved the prestigious Swiss watchmaking industry from succumbing to the Japanese hegemony in the quartz-watch business. In 1983, when he was approached for advice by a group of Swiss banks, the country had seen its share of the global watch market drop from 43% in 1974 to less than 15%. More than half the Swiss manufacturers had gone...
...influx of such yuppie-swank companies as Volvo and Braun to the $750 million infomercial business have resulted in the marketing of fewer gadgets ending in the suffix o-matic. In addition, Barry Diller's purchase of QVC has given the entire home-shopping industry an element of cachet. Diller was introduced to QVC by his friend Diane Von Furstenberg, who sells a line of women's clothes on the channel, and he is luring other upscale designers, among them Karl Lagerfeld, who has expressed interest in selling his chic apparel on the network...