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...domestic spying against Americans. He gained a best seller and a National Book Critics Circle Award with The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House. Now comes the book he hopes will be the capstone of his career. His publisher, Little, Brown--a subsidiary of Time Inc., the publisher of this magazine--is rolling out a sizable first printing of 350,000 copies. Hersh is bracing for the backlash from Kennedy loyalists--and not just from them. "I've had people I've known for 30 years be cold and angry," he says. "It's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMASHING CAMELOT | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...such stand-alone products is fading in a world where music and video are increasingly being rendered in the digital language of computers. So Sony is making personal computers with Intel, Net-surfing hardware for Microsoft's WebTV and cell phones and pagers with San-Diego-based Qualcomm Inc. Sony factories are churning out a wave of digital-based products, from high-resolution videodiscs and video-game machines to passport-size video and still cameras that plug into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW WORLD AT SONY | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

While his engineers race to mix and match technologies, Idei has been forging as many business alliances as possible. Besides Grove at Intel, the Sony chief is spinning deals with Microsoft. Last April, Microsoft paid $425 million for WebTV Networks Inc., an Internet software provider that uses Sony hardware. IBM's Lou Gerstner could be a key partner in shaping a future DVD format. In May, through Idei's personal connections with Rupert Murdoch, another Sun Valley buddy, Sony announced it would cooperate with News Corp., Fuji Television Network and Softbank, the Japanese company that owns Ziff-Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW WORLD AT SONY | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...Corp. (maker of Lee and Wrangler) and Guess?, have got a kick in the pants of late. "The story here is the competition," says Isaac Lagnado, president of Tactical Retail Solutions. In the world of blue jeans, denim pluralism was until recently considered blasphemy. That is, until Gap Inc. successfully introduced a complete store-brand jeans line in 1991. According to Lagnado, market share for private-label brands has grown from 8% in 1990 to 18% last year. Levi's has fallen from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEVI'S GETS THE BLUES | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...best example of the casinos' brave new marketing style is Harrah's Entertainment Inc. of Memphis, Tenn., which this fall launched a campaign to use a single frequent-gambler card to link the 10 million-plus people already in its databases with Harrah's 16 casinos across the country. The concept of the ATM-size card, which is inserted into the back of a slot machine to record the player's wins and losses, has been around since the early 1990s. Most casinos now offer one as part of membership in a "slot club." (By gambling, players accumulate points, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW CASINOS HOOK YOU | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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