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...like data-storage devices, while competitors raced ahead. The company's worldwide share of the market for disk drives reportedly plunged from 55% in 1980 to about 20% in 1985. The computer maker feverishly began cleaning house in 1985, not long before its financial squeeze. The company proceeded to discard some 20 businesses that were too far removed from its basic field. The biggest divestiture came last October, when Control Data sold off 80% of its Commercial Credit subsidiary, a financial-services firm, for $523.9 million...
While suggesting that he was seeking a middle course on South Africa, Reagan cast the problem in terms of polar alternatives. "We must stay and work," he said, "not cut and run." If Congress imposes sanctions, Reagan said, "it would destroy America's flexibility, discard our diplomatic leverage and deepen the crisis...
Right on the scholarly mark. Reagan's experience and intuition tell him the same things many scholars are finding from their study in the library stacks. To make Government smaller and more efficient, the presidency may need more power to trim here and discard there. To make Government more effective, the presidency may need more freedom for action before crises develop...
...self-confident government scholar to go off to the Kennedy School and attack problems of waste and inefficiency in this great country after showing him the impossibility of lightly browning some American Wonder Bread, which he must then discard with impunity...
...fees that can hit $225 an hour, the specialists try to create a complete image--from corporate hairstyle to speech--for the ambitious man or woman who is still a few tantalizing rungs from the top. Self-styled "wardrobe engineers" advise men to discard cheap ties and reject anything in polyester. Women executives are cautioned to button up at the collar and resist the current custom of walking into the office in running shoes...