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...less contrarian was Karan's approach to the hosiery business. In 1987 the designer became convinced that women would spend more money if they could find heavier, more opaque pantyhose to cloak the sags that most female flesh is heir to. The product that she and her licensee, Hanes, came up with was nearly twice as thick and twice as expensive as usual hose. "Everyone here thought we were on drugs," recalls Hanes vice president Cathy Volker. But the gamble paid off. Customers recognized the superior quality and paid for it. This year the business is likely to gross...
...Johnny Carson's retirement from Tonight last May have been worse than anyone could have predicted. Picking Leno as Carson's successor seemed a logical move at the time; Leno, after all, had drawn good ratings as Carson's permanent guest host. But Letterman, once regarded as Carson's heir apparent, was publicly grumpy at being passed over. And Leno, a well-liked and hardworking comic, has suffered a shocking run of bad publicity, much of it stemming from the hardball booking tactics employed by his departed executive producer Helen Kushnick...
Teachers must be sensitive to multiculturalismin order to better serve heir students and toprevent misunderstanding between themselves andtheir pupils, Delpit said...
...triple anointing, Ford Motor Co. named a new executive crew: Alexander Trotman, Allan Gilmour and Louis Ross. The English-born Trotman is apparently heir apparent to chairman Harold Poling after he retires. Unlike his confreres, Trotman has extensive experience overseas -- and the blessing of the Ford family...
Smith's failures put Stempel in an awkward position when the latter took over GM at the start of the '90s. As Smith's handpicked heir apparent, Stempel had loyally seconded the chairman's plans. "Stempel always voted with Roger on everything," says a GM insider, "even though he used to tell me he knew things were wrong and disagreed." So even as Stempel went along with GM's wild ride through the Smith era, he learned the hazards of sweeping change...