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...increasing dominance of CBS's largest stockholder (he controls 24.9% of the outstanding shares) was underlined once again last week. As Tisch and Paley emerged from a three-hour regular monthly session of the 14-member CBS board, word spread that directors had once again avoided choosing a Wyman successor. A seven-member search committee, headed by former Defense Secretary Harold Brown, has met three times so far but has set no deadline for its task. The main reason for the committee's lassitude is that Tisch is not yet finished with his task of reorganizing the company...
...child fights more single-mindedly for a toy than do some 800 manufacturers and distributors for a share of that market. At Mattel, the second largest toy company, with sales of just over $l billion, guards patrol the R&D building in Hawthorne, Calif., as if it were a Strategic Air Command base. Understandably. A successful new product can mean buckets of the stuff that grown-ups' dreams are made of. Coleco came charging out of the Cabbage Patch with its pathetic but lovable doll, and currently ranks third, with annual sales of more than $500 million. Hasbro, the leader...
...theme song, "Jem is truly, truly, truly outrageous." She is related by plastic to Cricket, a talking tot ("Are we having fun or what?"), and to Barbie, the original glitz princess. Barbie's clothes alone sell more than 20 million pieces each year, making Mattel the largest manufacturer of women's wear in the world...
...twin deficits -- budget and trade -- have created a historically unprecedented pile of external U.S. debt. America now owes foreign creditors nearly $200 billion, making it the world's largest debtor country. If trade deficits were to continue at their current level, the debt could reach $800 billion by 1991, Feldstein estimated. More ominous, U.S. debt could suddenly hit a critical point at which foreign investors become concerned that their money is concentrated too much in one place. Any sudden loss of confidence, said De Vries, could send the dollar into a steep fall. A plunge in the dollar could ignite...
According to the fund's records, the largest consultant fee--$50,000--went to Miner and Fraser. Another $10,000 went to Daniel Conrad, a fundraiser for the National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty, a conservative group that North reportedly assisted in preparing pro-Contra television commercials...