Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that he has dubbed Camp Rockport. In groups of a dozen, each of his 220 employees takes a car pool to the mansion for two days of sports and shoptalk with the boss. Rockport, a thriving maker of walking shoes (estimated 1985 sales: $68 million), has been growing so fast that Katz feared he was falling out of touch with employees. Says Katz: "We're trying to be a democratic company, one where people are just as important as the profits they make...
...firm. The company's once captive markets have become competitive, and its share of business has been dwindling. Its slice of new consumer telephone sales, once 80%, is now down to 50%, and the company has closed its telephone-making plant in Indianapolis. Revenues from telephone rentals are shrinking fast too, as more and more phone users buy their own phones. Such competitors as GTE and Northern Telecom have stolen about half of the $12.5 billion a year in business that AT&T once did with the local operating companies. Computer sales, which have been depressed for nearly all firms...
Between Neil Young and Simon & Garfunkel hits, Hunsberger takes requests, while sipping the coffee, which he receives free from Au Bon Pain and which is quickly becoming his trademark. He masters new songs as fast as he can; he just learned Don McClean's "American Pie," a song many people ask him to play...
...Fast-talking Robert H. Scott, vice-president for administration, is the University's systems manager. Scott is in the middle of administering a $250 million renovation program of the Houses and academic buildings. And in the near future, he will implement the vast computerization program now in the planning stages at Harvard. Less desirably, Scott has inhereted Harvard's long-standing, costly and controversial Medical Area Total Energy Project (MATEP...
...small spot that gets raves from sushi addicts. Also check-out the Square's newcomer Cafe Sushi (1105 Mass. Ave). The place sounds French, but the food is authentic and not too expensive. For Mexican fans, there's cafeteria-style (and -priced) Paco's Tacos (50 JFK St.). Another fast food spot is Tacomaker (JFK across from the Galeria), which offers 99-cent specials. For decent eats, La Pinata (16 Eliot St.) isn't bad and is cheap. Better is Casa Mexico (75 Winthrop St.), which is also correspondingly higher-priced, but at least the burritos are worth digging into...