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...emphasize the Government's role in industrial policy, former White House Adviser Amitai Etzioni, a renowned sociologist, coined the word reindustrialization. That jawbreaker was given cachet by Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft and quickly became a favorite of Capitol Hill trendmakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Curing Ailing Industries | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

After taking a telephone call from a well-wisher at the Le Mans race track, he could have said, "That was Mother." But it would not have had quite the same cachet, so Mark Thatcher, 26, announced, "That was the Prime Minister." Midway into the grueling 24-hr, sports car race, young Thatcher, positioned 30th in a field of 34, suffered what he later called "a momentary lapse of concentration" while negotiating an S bend at 80 m.p.h. His Osella skittered crabwise across the track, bumped to a stop against a safety barrier and refused to start. Thatcher, who made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 30, 1980 | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...Sears shoppers wanted to maximize cash, not cachet. When the upgrading effort flopped badly, Sears switched directions and tried to recoup by launching a price-cutting drive. Sales rose 15% in 1977, but market shares slumped and profit margins dropped. Last year Sears again shifted tactics by cutting down promotions and long-running sales to rebuild earnings. But that also failed, and sales declined 2.3%. Sears was developing an acute case of corporate schizophrenia. Says Morgan, Stanley Analyst Walter Loeb: "There is a certain sexiness about Penney's, a certain chauvinist budget-orientation about K mart. But Sears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sears Searches for Success | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...friends such journalistic heavies as Writers Richard Goodwin and Doris Kearns and New Republic Editor and Publisher Martin Peretz. "Acquiring the Atlantic expands my personal life into more of a professional involvement," says Zuckerman. A man who has worked with him suggests he also wants the magazine for its cachet: "He's very bright and very insecure, and has an overwhelming need for acceptance within a certain circle of society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: New Cash for an Old Bostonian | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...Detroit Mayor Coleman Young vs. Georgia's Julian Bond, Chip Carter vs. former Congressman Allard Lowenstein, Miss Lillian vs. all comers. It was White House clout against Kennedy cachet, a rush of federal block grants and prestigious appointments against a hint of similar largesse tomorrow. It was who had the buses and got enough of them to the polls. It was, alas, Florida and its distressingly premature launching of the 1980 presidential race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Premature Poll | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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