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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from some 28,000 magazines -- surplus copies of House Beautiful, Esquire, Town & Country and the like -- spilling in a torrent from a fireplace, across the floor and through a wall and another fireplace. Embedded in them are a bathtub, a stuffed zebra and what must be the world's largest outboard motor, a 300-h.p. Johnson V-8, which looks big enough to drive the Queen Mary. The work is not for sale, and will be dismantled at the end of the show; Mach likens such setups to performances, and this one was done before in England with different objects...
...latest battle of Manassas began in earnest last January when Hazel/ Peterson Co., the largest land developers in northern Virginia, joined Edward DeBartolo, the nation's biggest shopping-center developer, to propose the mall, complete with new highway intersections, commuter parking lots and high- rise office buildings. Down came a barrage of hostile fire from outraged Civil War buffs, including Actor Charlton Heston and former White House Spokesman Jody Powell, a descendant of nine Manassas veterans. Ground where 4,200 soldiers gave their lives, say the preservationists, should not be overwhelmed by noise, traffic and pollution from...
...long way in recognizing the need to be competitive." Adds U.A.W. Vice President Stephen Yokich: "I can see a totally different attitude. We're meeting and talking about our problems." Working together has its rewards: this year's $636 million profit-sharing disbursement is believed to be the largest such payout ever made by an American company. The workers received average bonuses of $3,700, up from...
...protect itself from the vicissitudes of a fickle business, Ford has been moving to diversify. Since 1985, it has bought an 80% stake in Hertz (for $1.3 billion); California's First Nationwide Bank ($493 million), the fourth largest U.S. thrift institution; and BDM International ($425 million), a military research firm that will supplement Ford's longtime aerospace expertise. Ford is rumored to be interested in using its $10 billion cash hoard to go after a much larger acquisition, perhaps a company the size of Boeing, Lockheed or Singer...
Others think Ford has the ability but needs the desire to overtake GM as the world's largest automaker. Says Vladimir Pucik, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan's business school: "Nobody goes to the Indy 500 trying to be a strong...