Word: ince
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last moment. Pfeiffer told Carter's aides that "personal reasons" precluded her acceptance. One possible woman appointee: Patricia Roberts Harris, a Washington attorney, who could be named Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Two other women were interviewed by Carter for possible Cabinet posts: Joan Manley. Time Inc. vice president and publisher of TIME-LIFE Books, who might be under consideration for Commerce; and Duke University Economist Juanita Kreps, a possibility...
Throughout, the L.D.P. lived in symbiosis with the industrial giants of "Japan Inc." At election time, lavish flows of corporate cash fueled the L.D.P. campaigns. Frequent scandals were quickly buried, and in the heady atmosphere of growth, few cared. But all that has changed since 1974, when Miki stepped in as the L.D.P.'s compromise choice to replace disgraced Premier Tanaka. The L.D.P.'s decline may be hard to reverse. Says one high Miki aide: "I would not rule out a breakup of the party. We're in for a period of basic political realignment in Japan...
...Hugh still has his backers, including Carter Hawley Hale Stores, Inc., which invested $68 million in the House of Fraser two years ago in exchange for a 20% interest; the company also owns Neiman-Marcus in Dallas and Bergdorf Goodman of New York. From his Los Angeles office last week, Chairman Edward W. Carter said he felt "very sorry" about Fraser's personal problems but believed they had not harmed the business. Said he: "Fraser runs the company, and he does it well...
...Local 880 of the Service Employees International Union began organizing kitchen workers, nurse's aides, secretaries and other service personnel at Beth Israel Hospital. Shortly afterwards the hospital, one of several teaching hospitals affiliated with the Harvard Medical School, hired the consulting firm of Modern Management Methods, Inc. to advise supervisory personnel on employee relations strategy...
...obviously likes both. A graduate of the Harvard architectural school, in 1970 he grandly opened the Kenneth Walker Design Group-consisting of himself-to do graphics and interior projects. To get more work, he merged two years later with the established architectural office of the Grad Partnership, forming Walker/Grad Inc. By then, however, the recession was causing such sharp cutbacks in new construction that few jobs were to be had. But Walker noticed that retailers kept on building new stores and remodeling old ones. He broke into the then staid field by refurbishing the shoe department of the Henri Bendel...