Word: ince
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...options can be as varied and innovative as personnel departments can make them. At Detroit's Comerica Inc. (1982 assets: $7.4 billion), Michigan's second largest bank holding company, employees can tailor their benefit packages to help pay for child care. At Baker Packers, a unit of California-based Baker International (1982 revenues: $2.5 billion), workers can cash in up to a week of vacation and deposit the proceeds in company-sponsored savings plans that invest in stocks and other securities...
...only clear-cut statement about the future came from Steven Jobs, 28, chairman of the board of Apple Computer, Inc. Within two years, Jobs predicted, more computers than automobiles will go on the market. "They should be well designed," he said. "But well designed or not, they will sell anyway." To some of his listeners, this indicated that Apple considers design dispensable gift wrapping. It also raised the specter of technology and engineering moving ahead of design instead of following from it, with the result that the style of buildings, computers and graphics would merely reflect expediency. As Design Writer...
Jeffrey Martin Inc., the distributor of Ayds appetite-suppressant candy, has faced just this issue since AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, began getting public attention in mid-1981. Jeffrey Martin acquired the Ayds marketing rights from Purex at about the time of the first report of AIDS...
...when Jeffrey Martin took over the product. Says Martin Himmel, company president: "We have repackaged it, redesigned it, readvertised it and given it a new breath of life." Perhaps as a result, retailers say, the disease is not hurting the product. Says Elliot Dworkin, vice president of Revco D.S. Inc., which operates 1,661 drugstores in 28 states: "Ayds sales have never been better...
DIED. Dennis R. Barnhart, 40, president of Eagle Computer, Inc., a thriving young microcomputer firm that, partly through his skillful management, had doubled its sales every quarter since its May 1982 incorporation; of injuries suffered when his red Ferrari swerved out of control, tore through a guard rail, and crashed into a ravine, only hours after the company's first public stock offering made the paper value of his holdings $9 million; in Los Gatos, Calif...