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...address the chain's problems, Nakasone's predecessor last January ballyhooed "Concept 2000," a revitalization plan calling for, among other things, less cluttered, brighter, cleaner stores. But only a month later, Nakasone took over, and in September he replaced the plan with something he calls "C-3." (Don't ask.) It targets service improvements as well as inventory reductions. It promises a $500,000-a-store renovation that will include an oval "racetrack" layout providing 18% more selling space. And it envisions a diversification into products such as clothing and electronics, which Nakasone hopes will attract more customers outside...
DIED. JOSEPH BAUM, 78, restaurateur who drew high rollers to his high-concept eateries; in New York City. Baum's penchant for aerial views and all things flambe culminated in the Manhattan landmarks Windows on the World and the Rainbow Room...
...eager to reacquaint themselves with the sound of Moog synthesizers) but reaches its peak with an acoustic, rhythmically virtuosic version of the Sly Stone title song that somehow manages to swing while also suggesting the original funk beat. McBride says he's trying to provoke: "How many more concept albums can you handle? Such and Such plays the music of Gershwin--a lot of that is getting so tired." He points out that when it comes to pop, his generation grew up listening not to Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole but to Stone and Michael Jackson; it's only...
...deeply moved by Yuri Zarakhovich's "A Russian's Lament" [VIEWPOINT, Sept. 21], describing his country's inability to cope with freedom. The concept of freedom is so deeply ingrained in U.S. culture that it never occurs to us that other nations do not even know exactly what to embrace. It becomes all the more imperative for the West to teach these concepts to others, rather than aim for an economic coup in evolving nations. Our challenge is to elect leaders who are better than individual countries deserve--they must serve the world. KRIS GALLAGHER Chicago...
...trillion to $100 quintillion (between 14 and 21 figures) b) $2 million to $3 million c) Roseanne has no concept whatsoever of basic mathematics...