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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acquisitions during the 1960s that Harvard Business School used it as a case study of successful diversification. Now the 124-year-old sewing-machine firm is trying hard to recover from the financial drain caused by some of its acquisitive deals. Last week Singer President Joseph B. Flavin, who was hired away from Xerox two months ago to help end Singer's deficits (TIME, Nov. 24), got started by dumping the business-machine division. It includes data-processing equipment, electronic cash registers and calculators, and has lost about $60 million since 1970. Singer thus joins a large number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Computer Casualty | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

Last week Singer announced its choice: Joseph B. Flavin, 47, former president of Xerox Corp.'s international operations, who will take over as president and chief executive officer next month. Practical and harddriving, Flavin graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and worked his way up to controller of IBM World Trade Corp. before taking the same job at Xerox in 1967. There, he soon moved from internal controls to long-range financial planning and finally, in 1972, to the international area. Away from work, Flavin is a devout Catholic who enjoys golf and skiing with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXECUTIVES: A Stitch in Time | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

Says one former colleague: "He does not jump to conclusions without thinking through all the implications of what might be done. His greatest skills are financial-understanding the statistical impact on a corporation of a given course of action." Flavin says of his new job: "Basically, Singer is a sound company. Our major problem will be to determine just what it is that we're trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXECUTIVES: A Stitch in Time | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...trying to turn it around that company employees nicknamed a special group of offices set aside for these executives the "cancer ward." Singer is already selling off a division making water-treatment equipment and a European mail-order business, and it has plans to drop other losing operations. Flavin's most pressing decision will be whether to sell some or all of the data-processing line as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXECUTIVES: A Stitch in Time | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

...died last year at 65, he left a body of work that seemed the epitome of aristocratic breadth and daring. Newman's canvases, with their engulfing fields of color traversed by vertical "zips," had become intrinsic to the look of American painting. Artists as diverse as Dan Flavin, Kenneth Noland, Clement Meadmore and Alexander Liberman had been deeply affected by the radical openness of his art and his brave, grumpy polemics. Granted obvious differences of context and emphasis, Newman's work had acquired much the same ethical role as Poussin's did for young painters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pursuit of the Sublime | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

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