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...time when best-selling management-advice books tell corporate leaders how to behave like Attila the Hun, the philosophy at Herman Miller, Inc., is more closely attuned to the gentle precepts of St. Francis of Assisi. As described by chairman Max De Pree, 64, in Leadership Is an Art (Doubleday; $17.95), modern corporations should be communities, not battlefields. At their heart lie "covenants" between executives and employees that rest on "shared commitment to ideas, to issues, to values, to goals, and to management processes. Words such as love, warmth, personal chemistry are certainly pertinent...
Republican Party chairman Lee Atwater set the tone last June by declaring that since Hispanics account for nearly 50% of the district's voters, electing a Cuban American to the seat was his "No. 1 goal." Shot back Richman, a former head of the state bar association: "This is an American seat." For the rest of the campaign, the opponents bickered over each other's alleged bigotry. Spanish radio stations added to the nastiness by charging that a vote for Richman was a vote for Fidel Castro. Although Richman won a majority of black and Anglo voters, Ros-Lehtinen...
While Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is a loyal Republican, he has taken pains to avoid any appearance of partisanship. And for its part, the Bush Administration has refrained from publicly admonishing Greenspan over monetary policy. But that restraint evaporated last week when Budget Director Richard Darman, appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, accused the Federal Reserve Board of keeping interest rates too high because of an exaggerated concern about inflation. "If we do have a recession, I think it will be because they erred on the side of caution," said Darman...
...fitness craze began in the mid-1970s, athletic-shoe manufacturers were dubbed "Adidas and the Seven Dwarfs." But by the early 1980s, while West Germany's Adidas remained No. 1 outside the U.S., fast- rising Nike dominated the American market. The company was started in 1972 by current chairman Philip Knight, 52, a University of Oregon graduate, and Bill Bowerman, 78, his former track coach, who used a waffle iron to make their first soles. (The now famous Swoosh trademark on the side of the shoes was designed by an art student for $35.) Nike's sales sprinted from...
Although Leland had managed to persuade the House to create the Select Committee on Hunger and make him its chairman in 1984, famine lost its luster once the strains of We Are the World faded and the television lights went off. There is little money or prestige in hunger. Leland earned $22,650 in special- interest speech-giving fees in 1988; Illinois Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, earns nearly ten times as much as that. Laying guilt trips on colleagues until they provided $800 million for starving Africans during the sub-Saharan famine...