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When the small thrift ran into trouble during the inflationary climate of the mid-1970s, it was taken over by Denver businessman James Metz, who saw the sleepy S&L as the future flagship of a financial empire. He named himself chairman and hired Wise, an S&L marketing whiz from Columbia Savings in Kansas, to run the company. The nattily dressed Wise wasted no time in transforming Mile High's small-town image. He launched an ambitious expansion drive, unveiled plans for a glass-and-steel headquarters downtown, and renamed the company Silverado, evoking the dreams of prospectors...
...retailer from the Morse-Harris Group, owners since 1985. Estimated price: $40 million. Once America's top toy merchant, Schwarz was - losing customers by the early 1980s to competitors like Toys "R" Us. But Morse-Harris revived the firm by closing unprofitable locations, moving the flagship store to grander quarters farther up Fifth Avenue and boosting catalog sales. KBB's plans for Schwarz include its first European and Japanese outlets...
...vice president of Gannett and publisher of a ten-newspaper group with headquarters in White Plains, N.Y., and, most recently, publisher and CEO of the Detroit News. "TIME," he says, "has always been an icon for me -- the source. It was a thrill to be asked to join the flagship." Although all publishing is competitive, he adds, "the biggest challenges here are ideas. Our task is to go into the next century as relevant and essential to our readers...
...Arthur Rosenthal made Harvard the flagship University Press in the U.S.," said Aida D. Donald, editor-in-chief of the Harvard University Press. "We will miss him tremendously, but he leaves us very strong, and, like him, we have great faith in the future of the Press...
...sources, insisting on anonymity, also said the most likely U.S. ship for the talks was the cruiser Belknap, the 547-foot long, missile-armed flagship of the Sixth Fleet, based in the Mediterranean. There was speculation Bush would make the ship his headquarters and spend the night there...