Word: leanness
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...well as other special projects Jackson handled for Allison, will be spread around the existing staff--a move that has prompted some grumbling that the quickly growing K-School has begun to cut costs too much. Champion said yesterday that the K-School is trying to keep a lean operation with as few people as possible, but added that the school could absorb the growth without expanding its staff much...
...Ramadan, and Shultz had to wait in Jidda while King Fahd spent the day at prayer in Mecca. The two finally met after midnight. In the course of the talks, which went on until 2:30 a.m., Saudi officials made it clear that they were not going to lean on Assad; they felt that the Israeli-Lebanese agreement favored Jerusalem...
...huge question mark, however, still hangs over Ford: the $2 billion debt load built up during the lean years. Says Auto Industry Analyst Ann Knight of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "They can dig their way out of it, but the deterioration of their balance sheet is cause for concern." Yet after all those recent bad years, Ford is not thinking too much about the debt. With a few good years, the company could pay off its old loans-and more...
...match made in show business heaven. John Travolta: instant superstar when he strode down a Brooklyn sidewalk, the white-suited knight in a grungy Camelot, as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever; consolidation of stardom in Grease and Urban Cowboy; a sensitive actor with a stud's lean physique. Sylvester Stallone: instant superstar when he laced up his gloves and socked it to the champ for the full 15 in Rocky; consolidation of stardom in Rockys II and III, which he directed as well as wrote, mixing sentimental bravura with slam-bang action sequences. And who was Tony Manero...
Nowhere was the company's lean new stance more evident than in the way it plunged into the personal-computer market in August 1981. Tackling the mass market for computers for the first time, the company broke many of the traditions that had made it so successful in the past. Yet its new machine, the Personal Computer, generally known simply as the PC, has done nothing less than trans form the industry. IBM has already captured 21% of the $7.5 billion U.S. market for personal computers, a staggering feat in so short a time, and is virtually tied with...