Word: flagships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sidebar, West German journals often gloss over the news and publish the analysis. The conservative Kohl has powerful allies: the nationally distributed Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (circ. 332,000), probably the country's most influential daily and all but certainly its weightiest; Die Welt (circ. 210,000), the intellectual flagship of Press Lord Axel Springer's chain, and perhaps the most ardently pro-American, pro-Israeli and anti-Soviet publication in West Germany; Springer's giant Bild Zeitung (circ. 5 million), a sensationalized daily featuring bare-breasted pinups and imaginative stories of sex scandals that nonetheless enjoys unexcelled...
Nevertheless, there have been some stunning recent soda successes. Coca-Cola's new diet Coke, which was introduced last July, is already a brisk seller. For years, the company had feared that putting its famed name on any other product would diminish the sales and standing of the flagship brand. But to the company's surprise, nearly two-thirds of diet Coke sales are coming from new soda drinkers or from other companies' brands...
DIED. John Cowles, 84, scion of a newspaper dynasty who left his father's fiefdom in Des Moines to buy a Minneapolis afternoon paper in 1935, eventually swallowed three competitors, then reached out to create a Midwestern journalistic empire while making his Minneapolis morning flagship, the Tribune, into one of the country's most respected newspapers; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis. After he retired in 1968, the Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. began a long decline, as a result of which Cowles' son John Jr. was ousted from its leadership four weeks...
Last Monday, State Banking Commissioner William Adams shut down Butcher's flagship, the United American Bank of Knoxville, citing "large and un usual loan losses" at the $760 million institution. It was the fourth largest U.S. commercial bank failure since the 1930s. By the time U.A.B. opened again on Tuesday morning, it had been taken over by the state's largest bank holding company, First Tennessee National Corp. (assets: $4.2 billion...
...bitter irony. The flight of Detroiters to the suburbs afflicted the city and accelerated Hudson's demise, but--embarrassingly--Hudson's itself had been intimately involved in promoting this suburban growth. By opening branch stores in suburban outlets, Hudson's had actually sapped the pull of its flagship store; down-playing the store's ultimate failure was, then, more than understandable...