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...virtuoso ELIOT FISK has recorded his own transcriptions of the pieces (MusicMasters Classics). What amazes throughout is Fisk's ingenuity in finding the equivalents of, say, legato and ricocheted bowing on his plucked instrument, and his dexterity in executing them with such panache. This recording will dazzle violinists and daunt guitarists...
Home Depot has prospered by taking the angst out of the hangar-like spaces and vast array of items that can easily daunt do-it-yourself shoppers. All the firm's warehouse stores feature clearly marked displays and sales staffs wearing large orange aprons who roam the concrete floors to offer advice. Many employees are former carpenters, plumbers or other craftsmen who have traded in their tool kits for such incentives as the company's stock-purchase plan, which lets Home Depot's 26,000 workers buy shares at 15% below the market price; at week's end, the shares...
...company's 143 stores (although watches, perfumes and sunglasses are still sold in department stores and other retail outlets). To restore old-fashioned quality, hand-stitched leather products are being emphasized. And across the board, prices have been raised an average of 20% -- a fact that seems not to daunt a new generation of Gucci loyalists...
Ishaq Khan hinted he would not automatically bypass Bhutto: "I think a woman Prime Minister might be a good change." In the male-dominated Muslim society of Pakistan, it would be an astonishing one. That did not daunt Bhutto. She immediately set out to solicit coalition partners. By Thursday night she claimed, "We already have a simple majority in the parliament." But Nawaz Sharif is also scrambling to assemble a majority, and likewise predicts he will succeed...
Other entrepreneurs thrive on challenges that can daunt larger firms. Few industries have shrunk more in recent years than American shoe manufacturing, which has seen imports walk off with much of its business. Yet the Timberland shoe company (1983 sales: $60 million), based in the rural hamlet of Newmarket, N.H., has weathered the foreign onslaught and added 900 workers over the past five years. "We benefited from the lack of imagination of some of the other old shoe companies around here," says Herman Swartz, president of the family-owned concern. Fully one-quarter of Timberland's sales have come...