Word: fixers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mart is retailing's biggest fixer-upper, and Stewart, author of laborious decorating tips and arbiter of God-is-in-the-details perfectionism, is in the midst of injecting it with a large dose of the upper-crust life-style that is Martha Stewart living. In a joint venture with K Mart, Stewart has launched a signature paint (with Sherwin-Williams) and home collection: Martha Stewart Everyday, the first salvo in an all-out assault on K Mart's style sensibility. If Stewart has her way (and she usually does), America will soon be changing its sheets the Martha...
Suckled on his mother's public disappointment, son Axel pursues power behind the scenes. He becomes one of the capital's gray eminences, "a fixer without portfolio" whose fusion of public and private business seems more like class privilege than conflict of interest...
...since his first defeat in the 1980 Governor's race in Arkansas. Even when he was safely ahead, he would panic at the very end of his gubernatorial races, to the point of taking out personal loans from the likes of the Perry County Bank and ordering his chief fixer, Bruce Lindsey, to hand out tens of thousands of dollars in cash payments to encourage voter turnout in the Arkansas Delta. The last-minute push continues to this day: Washington lobbyists complain that Democratic fund raisers were resorting to daily cold calls to donors through last week, even telephoning corporate...
...expects Archer-Daniels- Midland to change its advertising slogan from "Supermarket to the World" to "Price Fixer to the World." But that sobriquet would fit in the wake of the agribusiness giant's $100 million plea bargain last week with the Justice Department...
DIED. SIDNEY KORSHAK, 88, labor attorney whose connections to organized crime powered his career as a Hollywood fixer; in Beverly Hills. After defending Al Capone's cronies in Chicago, Korshak moved to L.A. in the late 1940s, where studio owners had him ensure labor peace. Korshak was never indicted, but "a message from him," a prominent mobster once testified under oath, "is a message from...