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...course, Springer stands on the shoulders of giants. Long before his show became a hit, Donahue and Winfrey were walking around the audience while their guests shared their personal tales. Lake, whose show debuted in 1993, refined the formula by adding confrontation. With her success came a clutch of imitators and a new round of fretting about trash television. But with all the competition, ratings began to decline, and by 1996, hosts like Rivera and Lake were taking the pledge to become more high-minded. They were encouraged by the experience of Jenny Jones, one of whose guests murdered another...
...Weaver's formula has become hardball shorthand for the quick-strike offense, the lineup capable of breaking a game open with one or two well-timed drives. And that approach rules in college baseball's dominant South and Midwest...
Harvard was able to win the series by using a time-tested playoff formula--excellent special teams and clutch goal-tending...
...makeover is a farce. He has an ambitious growth strategy, which he appears determined to stick around to oversee. That's new stuff for Dunlap, 60, a churn-around pro who in the past has followed swift cost cuts with the well-timed sale of his company. The formula worked wonders for shareholders in 1994-95 at Scott Paper, where he cut the head count 35%. The stock tripled. The script was being rewritten at Sunbeam, where the stock has quadrupled...
...roughly the same size as Sunbeam and has problems similar to those Dunlap faced at Sunbeam when he arrived in July 1996. Coleman essentially becomes Dunlap's next turnaround gig. Only he bought it instead of being hired. (Job hunting is such a drag.) If he can work his formula at Coleman, Sunbeam's stock will shoot much higher. With that in mind, Wall Street rolled out the red carpet, pushing Sunbeam shares up 24% in a week. Remember, an acquirer's stock generally goes down at first...