Word: indy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fast-action sequence worthy of Indiana Jones, Para mount and 20th Century-Fox last week played switcheroo with top executives. Paramount Chairman Barry Diller, 42, the man responsible for the studio's long string of recent successes (Indi ana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Terms of Endearment, Flashdance), is becoming chairman of 20th Century-Fox. He replaces Alan Hirschfield, 47, who will stay on as a consultant. Marvin Davis, half owner of Fox, wooed Diller by giving him part ownership of the film studio, along with salary and bonuses that will doubtlessly exceed...
...know in this business work all week, all weekend. Doing the job is a rush, and the Survival game is a concentrated rush." They take the game seriously, themselves slightly less so. Even Mad Dog, who says, "To me this is just playing cops-and-robbers or cowboys-and-Indi-ans." Hmmm. An idea...
...high deficits, however, cannot be put into an economist's computer. This is the psychological impact on the battle against inflation. The average American consumer may not be well versed in the fine points of economic theory, but he is worried about anyone, whether it be an indi vidual family or the Government, who spends more than he earns. Said David R. Johnson, president of the Wyoming Bancorporation: "To continue to run the country at these big deficits is disastrous...
...alternative slate to the Coop stockholders' recommendations for the positions, which have too long been the highly-sought after tokens for resume-stuffers on their jaunt to business school. They are, in alphabetical order, Amy Banse, Jeff Brown, Meri Kane, Anita Landecker, Guy Molyneux, Jerome Rubin, Nancy Sinkoff, Indi Talwani and Rick Valelly. The members of the slate deserve support in what could be the first geniune effort to restore the Coop's original mission as a cooperative serving the Harvard and MIT communities...
...same formula should ensure a wide, expectant audience for The Third Wave. Readers who can sort out the scattered facts and insights from such amalgams as "indust-reality" and "indi-video" will learn a few things. Discrimination may not be necessary, for as Toffler McLuhanizes, "Third Wave people . . . are more at ease in the midst of this bombardment of blips . . . But they also keep an eye out for those new concepts or metaphors that sum up or organize blips into larger wholes...