Word: founder
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...Maryland-based group called the Made in the USA Foundation plans to compile a list of popular products and their place of manufacture for a forthcoming book titled Made in the USA: A Catalog of the Best American Products. Joel Joseph, the group's founder, plans to contrast such U.S.-made goods as Levi's and Macintosh computers with ringers that include Perry Ellis "America Series" shirts (made in Mauritius) and Rockport shoes (Portugal and Taiwan). Joseph is lobbying for legislation that would require advertisers to disclose where their products are manufactured...
...native of the Bronx, Davis joined Paramount in 1958 as director of sales and marketing. After G&W bought the studio in 1966, Davis quickly rose to become the principal deputy to company founder Bluhdorn. When Davis gained control of the company in 1983, he immediately spun off some 100 subsidiaries, ranging from zinc mines to sugar plantations. Within 2 1/2 years, he reduced the company's size by half...
...time he earned his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School in 1972, Tobias had published the first of his seven books. Among them: Fire and Ice, a biography of Revlon co-founder Charles Revson; The Invisible Bankers, a critique of the insurance industry; and The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, all big sellers. A prolific contributor to New York, Esquire and other magazines, Tobias has also written a computer program, Managing Your Money, which since 1984 has sold more than 250,000 copies...
...texts using masculine terms for humanity, the editors took greater liberties. Not even works of Methodism's co-founder and greatest hymnodist, Charles Wesley, were spared. In his Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, "pleased as man with men to dwell" becomes "pleased with us in flesh to dwell." In Christ the Lord Is Risen Today, "sons of men and angels say Alleluia" is recycled as "earth and heaven in chorus say Alleluia." As for other hymns: God of Our Fathers is now God of the Ages; Good Christian Men, Rejoice metamorphoses into Good Christian Friends, Rejoice; and O Little Town...
...their scripts and songs as boy meets girl. The Environmental Media Association, a clearinghouse for save-the-earth societies, is fronted by such heavyweights as Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, Creative Artists Agency President Michael Ovitz, MCA President Sid Sheinberg, and Lear, who with his wife Lyn was a group founder. At the letter-stuffing level, the Earth Communications Office is targeting the few thousand actors, writers, producers and directors whose work reaches billions of people. In seminars and trips, ECO will educate creative folk on earth-shaking issues...