Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MOST WELCOME NEW RESTAURANT CONCEPT Smaller prices for smaller portions has been the dream of delicate eaters for years. Now large and small portions at large and small prices are being offered by Woods on Madison Avenue in New ! York City, Gordon in Chicago and the Seventh Street Bistro in Los Angeles. Others plan to follow...
...need for U.S. businesses to boost efficiency prompted many of them to embrace yet another popular concept: restructuring. The mild-sounding new term actually meant the radical shedding of unwanted and unprofitable divisions and the wholesale trimming of excess employees. A highly visible case was CBS, whose board of directors dumped Chairman Thomas Wyman in September and installed as acting chief executive the company's largest stockholder, Laurence Tisch, a conglomerator known for wielding a sharp scalpel. At CBS, Tisch proceeded to sell off publishing divisions, lay off hundreds of employees and chop such perquisites as limousines and company-subsidized...
...contents reflect the theme of freedom and liberty in 1986. ABC will donate tapes of this year's Liberty Centennial celebrations. The Associated Press will compile the year's wire service stories dealing with the motif; United Press International will develop a chronology of 1986 events that reflects the concept of freedom. There will be taped greetings from President Reagan and U.S. Interior Secretary Donald Hodel, essays by children from 50 states and memorabilia from the 1986 Liberty extravaganzas...
...concept of the store is to "scoop it, bag it, tie it, mark it, and can it," said Barnett. After making, no doubt, many painstaking decisions, shoppers fill containers such as boxes, baskets, and tins with the mouth-watering comestibles of their choice...
...attend opening night. Danny lived the situation of one of his brother's greatest hits, The Odd Couple -- sharing an apartment with Hollywood Agent Roy Gerber, whose wife had left him -- and wrote 14 pages of a play about it before he stalled. Eventually Neil took over the concept and gave Danny one-sixth of the royalties. That concession has been worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, but to Danny's irritation Neil did not credit the script as "from an idea by Danny Simon." Last year Neil brought a rewritten, all-female Odd Couple to Broadway. Danny played...