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...company's remaining executives quickly realized that Tramiel would not run the company by committee. Tramiel, says an associate, demands "full, complete, undisputed authority." The new chairman's blitz would make Atari "leaner and meaner," said Vice President Bruce Entin. "The guy was in command. He was kind of like a general...
...nation's defense as one thing that attracted them. Says Steven Nesich, 30, a marketing consultant from Seattle: "The Reaganites have a knee-jerk reaction to defense: 'Build it.' The liberals have a knee-jerk reaction: 'Don't build it.' Hart sees a leaner, tougher defense that would cost us far less and be more effective...
...April 1985. He may beat that deadline handily. Wickes directors last month announced that an agreement to pay back creditors had been reached; the company is expected to emerge from bankruptcy by the end of the year. Said Sigoloff, now riding annual sales of $3 billion from a leaner Wickes, which focuses mainly on the home-improvement market: "Considering the size of the case and the complexity, it's probably a world's record." -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Allen Pusey/Dallas and Adam Zagorin/New York, with other bureaus
About the only sure winner in all the battles generated by deregulation, in fact, will be consumers. They should benefit from cheaper and more innovative products and services from companies that are leaner and hungrier...
While it was getting leaner, Conrail was also getting stronger. With deregulation, it has been able to cut prices and grab business from other carriers. Last year, for example, it hauled 875 carloads of water-purification chemicals that used to travel by truck from a Du Pont plant in Delaware. Conrail also snagged a fuel-hauling contract from Lake Ontario barge operators and moved 6,583 carloads of fuel oil for the Niagara Mohawk Power Corp...