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...released the second in a series of historical cassettes on the Civil War. Narrated by Edwin Newman and illustrated with archival drawings and paintings, the half-hour history lessons appeal to the "same kind of people who collect National Geographic magazines and put them on their bookshelves," says Atlas' founder and president, Peter Edwards. Another small but imaginative firm, Rhino Video, has done well with compilations of old TV clips, sensational movie trailers and oddball cartoons like Bambi Meets Godzilla. Notes Rhino President Richard Foos: "There is an incredible fascination among certain people with the odd and bizarre...
...LaFalce bill would require federal agencies to set numerical goals for awarding contracts to women. Prime contractors would have to set similar goals in awarding work to subcontractors. But LaFalce's bill would have no effect on state government procurement, where conditions are also rough. Mildred Green, 55, founder of Accounting Data Systems of Caro, Mich. (1987 revenues: $2.5 million), recalls one of her bids being spurned by a state contracting officer with the remark, "We don't do women...
...contributions for the purpose of setting up new management-training programs for women entrepreneurs in several U.S. cities. The leading operation of this type: the American Woman's Economic Development Corp. (AWED). A nonprofit Manhattan center, AWED offers courses in marketing, finance and other business basics. Says Beatrice Fitzpatrick, founder and president of AWED: "We're teaching women the rules of the game." Since 1977, 1,267 entrepreneurs have graduated from AWED's 18- month program. Only seven of the AWED-guided start-ups (0.6%) have declared bankruptcy. Bootstrap programs for would-be entrepreneurs have also sprung up in Illinois...
...their own festivals -- including Los Angeles in 1984 and again in 1987, and Chicago in 1986 and again this spring -- a New York event became an issue of civic pride. By the time it finally got under way June 11, its goal was seen as mainly aesthetic. According to Founder Martin Segal, a financial consultant and chairman emeritus of the city's Lincoln Center cultural complex, the festival was to celebrate the attainments of the 20th century and thereby "prove that the times we were living in were not all that doleful...
Like many of Gorbachev's ideas, the notion of convening a special conference is traceable to the founder of Russian Communism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. In the early days of Soviet power, such extraordinary sessions, held between regular quinquennial party congresses, were convened to deal with emergencies, major and minor. The practice fell into disuse under Joseph Stalin's dictatorship, although it was Stalin who called the last one, in 1941, to rally the party and the country against the German invasion. Gorbachev has revived the practice in hopes that it will give impetus to his reforms and provide him with...