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...since expanded to a chain of five dry-cleaning outlets, which are managed by the Nams. "We should work harder than other Americans," he says. "Otherwise we cannot succeed." Signs of the Nams' success include an attractive four- bedroom home in the upper-middle-class city of Garden Grove and two late- model U.S.-made cars...
Golab, 61, died at the FRS plant in Elk Grove Village, Ill., ten minutes after collapsing near a vat of cyanide, which is used to help recover silver from exposed photographic film. Other FRS workers testified that the plant reeked of bitter almonds, cyanide's telltale odor. Cook County Medical Examiner Robert Stein said death was caused by "acute cyanide toxicity," and that during the autopsy, Golab's chest cavity had smelled so strongly of almonds "that it hurt both the eyes of myself and my assistant." After rendering his verdict, the judge revoked bail for the defendants...
While his readers are likely to include company presidents and venture capitalists, many of Grove's correspondents are young women in low-level management positions. "These are people who put paper in typewriter because they have a problem. You can almost hear their plaintiveness," he says. The most common gripe, not surprisingly, concerns bosses: "The supervisor is too dictatorial. He hassles you too much. He doesn't give enough credit. He doesn't know how to motivate." Some letters involve problems that women face in handling new executive jobs. Others ask how to deal with a subordinate who wants your...
...plights are predictable. One senior manager wrote Grove of a recent invitation to a party at the home of one of the firm's managers. "While I was there, I noticed a group gathered outside on the patio. I guess I'm naive, but I decided to join the crowd. Well, they were smoking grass, and they had other drugs available." The reader declined to participate, but feared that "I may be too conservative." Grove firmly approved of his correspondent's actions...
...Grove acknowledges his own limitations, as any credible advice columnist must do from time to time. A recent exchange went this way: "I am young, female and blond. Almost every time I deal with a male client, I'm 'hit on.' I want to be nice, but I'm finding it harder and harder to be nice to someone who talks to my breasts instead of my face." Grove's response: "Not being young, female or blond, I find myself unqualified to give you suggestions. Businesswomen, please write and tell me how you have been coping with this problem." "Dear...