Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obvious that the netwomen have come a long way in a short time span, but Felske has a surprisingly casual attitude. "I'm not of the Vince Lombardi mold at all," he says, adding, "I've been a pretty good friend to my players--maybe too much of one. The good guys often finish last in this business...
These whimsical, if melancholy, statistics are cited by Market Strategist Raymond DeVoe, 51, writing in the April issue of Inc., a magazine for the small businessman. Serious passion, DeVoe has found, is even more pricey than casual dalliance. A candlelight dinner at an excellent New York restaurant, about $18 then, now costs $80 (up 344%). If music be the food of love, one might be tempted to tell the circling violinists to play on. The problem is the tip: $5, up 900% from the 50? that would have satisfied a '50s fiddler. Dom Perignon champagne, to celebrate a month...
...goes on, Maister writes key points on the blackboard. Waffle House is open 24 hours a day, for example. "Why would people say, 'Whoopee, let's go to Waffle House'?" he asks. "Downhome atmosphere," she answers. "Casual," he writes. And then "Table and counter service. Cook to order. No advertising. Rule books. G.A.F. (Good American Food). Target mkt: travelers, truckers." "Okay, let's step back a minute," Maister says. "How would you characterize the operation...
...that was solvable, you can be assured that we would have made that arrest." If the commissioner was annoyed about that possibly careless FBI disclosure, his boss, Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, was incensed. In a letter to the FBI director, Jackson suggested that Webster "consider the impact of your casual press statements, [which] undermine the public's confidence in our investigation and create a great deal of misdirected media speculation and invective." Added Jackson: "We need Washington's help, not more problems...
Television may do for businessmen what a Borgia banquet did for casual dining. From Dallas' oily antihero J.R. Ewing on down, most businessmen on television are depicted as crooks, amoral wheeler-dealers, criminals with Mafia connections, cheats, employers of professional arsonists and, worse still, jerks, clowns and buffoons. With the exception of Margaret Pynchon, the gracious owner of the Los Angeles Tribune on Lou Grant, nowhere on prime time is there anyone remotely resembling such constructive businessmen as Joseph C. Wilson of Xerox, Edwin Land of Polaroid, Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors or Thomas Watson...