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Apple (1984 sales: $1.5 billion) is often characterized as the corporate equivalent of a gawky adolescent. Though no longer a youthful entrepreneur, it remains in many ways immature. "Apple is feeling growing pains and is losing its innocence," says Ulric Weil, a computer analyst who watches the company for the Morgan Stanley investment banking firm...
...would bet money on an entrepreneur whose last company went bankrupt, who was tried and acquitted on charges of cocaine trafficking and who is being investigated for embezzlement? "An abundance of people," says Walt Bratten, chairman of Castle Group, a Newport Beach, Calif., investment firm. Bratten claims to be arranging financing for a new venture by John De Lorean, 60, the former General Motors executive whose first auto company collapsed in 1982. De Lorean has been working on the new project for about six months. He told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner that it was "inevitable that the company come...
...following one of the network's own soap operas: the plot seems to unfold at a painstakingly slow pace. But that is just the story line that CBS likes. Steady resistance and attack on all fronts seems to be CBS's strategy in its efforts to thwart the flamboyant entrepreneur's hostile bid. Some observers are comparing it with ABC's determined opposition in the 1960s to attempted takeovers by Norton Simon and Howard Hughes...
...like Jacoby & Meyers (140 offices in six states) and Hyatt Legal Services (161 in 20 states and the District of Columbia). Both are planning to expand, and will look with new interest at the many states, like Ohio, where restrictive ad policies may now be in jeopardy. Says Legal Entrepreneur Joel Hyatt, 34: "Because of the new decision, we are likely to be bolder on that score...
Whatever real-world parallels the playwrights may have had in mind for this shrewd, calculatedly savage entrepreneur, Le Roux has a life of his own, and on the grand scale. In Anthony Hopkins' brilliant, buoyant realization, he is a comic creation as monstrously beguiling as Tartuffe. He shares with Moliere's sham holy man the gift of ever renewed plausibility. Time and again, just as the audience is ready to withdraw its sympathy in disgust, Le Roux exposes the hypocrisies of opponents so tellingly that he becomes persuasive anew. When outraged employees confront him, his retort is blunt and seemingly...