Word: flagship
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...above." In Andrew Sullivan, 28, the 77-year-old magazine once considered the flagship of American intellectual liberalism has a new editor who defies the old conventions, just as the New Republic now does itself. "I'm a conservative with a small c," said Sullivan last week, hours after his first issue as editor had appeared. "I'm much more comfortable running pieces that are unashamedly conservative than my predecessors were...
...Pain, which opened in 1983, has become a landmark in Harvard Square and is the company's flagship and "favorite store," says Shaich. The chain, which was born in Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace, has outlets throughout the Northeast and generates several million dollars in revenue each year...
Combative, outspoken Al Neuharth was, on the whole, good to the Gannett Co. He built the firm into the biggest U.S. newspaper chain, gave it a vivacious national flagship, USA Today, and swept up many other media properties. Then again, Gannett was good to Neuharth. It paid him handsomely, and when he retired in 1989, at 65, gave him stock worth $5.1 million and $300,000 a year, guaranteed for life. Any gratitude was short-lived. In the two years since, the man who wrote Confessions of an S.O.B. has turned to global press philanthropy -- in no small measure...
Learnfare is Thompson's flagship incentive program. Designed to keep poor kids in the classroom and off the streets, it has proved extremely controversial. In the 1988-89 school year, Wisconsin sanctioned some 6,600 truant teens, saving the state an estimated $3.3 million in AFDC benefits. Says Thompson: "The state of Wisconsin is watching them and saying, 'If your mother and father don't require you to go to school, the state is going to be there to make sure...
...information-services company in a tentative agreement to pay more than $600 million for nine U.S. publications owned by debt-laden media magnate Rupert Murdoch. The KKR group would acquire such titles as Seventeen, New York and the Daily Racing Form, but the deal would exclude Murdoch's flagship publication, TV Guide...