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Many managers can slash their way to profits. Act II, growth, is the tough part, and that's where Martinez is right now. "You can't shrink your way to greatness," he is fond of saying. Sears has gained 10 million sq. ft. of selling space, mainly for apparel, in areas reclaimed from storage rooms and furniture departments that migrated to their own stores. To stock the shelves, new merchandising chief Robert Mettler, recruited from Robinson's, brought in popular national brands such as Champion, Arrow and B.U.M. and launched fashionable Sears-designed garments (imagine!) such as the Canyon River...
During the fall campaign, Bob Dole said on TV that General Motors has been replaced as the nation's largest employer by a temp agency, and he asked, "That's a good economy? I don't think so." You don't have to be running for President to be fond of tossing off that pat rejoinder. The police in Madison, Wisconsin, for example, reported that when they ordered a young scofflaw to approach their squad car, he replied, "I don't think so," and tried to run. (The cops caught him by his fanny pack...
Jaffe's students said they have fond memories of the professor's classroom enthusiasm...
...dork sitting alone every Saturday night. We made it through adolescence without disaster and have entered a period when the perils of parenting have given way to the joys of it. And I've yet to tell her what I really did during the '70s. My own mother was fond of sighing deeply and saying, to explain anything I didn't like, "You'll understand when you have a child of your own." On the day she first heard me say to Courtney, "Because I'm your mother, that's why," she was as happy as a mother...
When The People v. Orenthal James Simpson concluded last October, America's silly season ended. Gone was O.J., nothing but O.J., from television and from the tabloids. What lingered, though, from the most avidly discussed criminal trial in the late 20th century was not fond memories of the Dancing Itos but bitter divisions and unanswered questions. Simpson was acquitted in a matter of hours by a mostly black jury after a yearlong proceeding tainted by race baiting and muddied by mountains of evidence and theories of police conspiracy. Nothing seemed the same: not juries, not police departments, not the reputations...