Word: factor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oldest freshman congressman is probably 69-year-old Edward J. Stack (D-Fla.). Stack said his age was not a negative factor in his campaign, adding that more than 50 per cent of his constituency is on social security...
...that requires little capital to enter but plenty of moxie to survive in. An entrepreneur with creative flair can still rise fast, though that is getting harder all the time, and an established company can go downhill with blinding speed after the founding genius dies (Helena Rubinstein and Max Factor have been absorbed by conglomerates, and are in varying degrees of trouble now). Through all the turmoil, a few cosmetics firms have catered to the narcissistic tastes of the "me generation" skillfully enough to keep growing rapidly; and one, Revlon, Inc., has developed into a General Motors of beauty...
Successful as the company has been, the market is so mercurial that no cosmetics firm can ever really be safe; a bad mistake can be ruinous. A classic example is Max Factor's "Just Call Me Maxi" fragrance, introduced last year to compete with Charlie. It came about four years too late, as taste was at the point of switching back to romance and mystery, and bombed so badly that Factor plunged deep into the red; the debacle is widely believed to have cost President Sam Kalish, a Revlon alumnus...
...field, Avon still holds a lead, though Revlon has been catching up. In the rush to sign up big-name clothes designers to put their names on perfumes, other firms have been quite as aggressive as Revlon. Revlon bagged Bill Blass, but Norton Simon Inc., parent company of Max Factor, got Halston, and Helena Rubinstein took Anne Klein. Calvin Klein has built up a big business operating...
...third factor in Ohira's election may have been the support he received from former prime minister Kakuei Tanaka, currently on trial for taking bribes from Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Although Tanaka was forced to step down, he still controls a sizeable faction of supporters, Reischauer said, adding he doubts Ohira would have won if Tanaka had swung his support to Fukuda...