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ORSON WELLES His Citizen Kane tops list of best American movies. Titanic was too recent to be eligible...
...once vaunted reputation as a turnaround phenomenon is in tatters. That reputation is what landed him lucrative assignments, including previous stints as CEO at Scott Paper and Crown-Zellerbach, plus a high profile that he reveled in. It also put his book, Mean Business, on the best-seller list in 1996. That tome became a bible for those who followed Al's dictum that "the most important person in any company is the shareholder...
...should, like me, have a shopping list of stocks ready for whenever they go on sale. And, like me, you should regularly check back on those stocks to make sure that their fundamentals--their sales, earnings and business plans--are still on track...
...judge these issues without knowing the basics of who and where a company's most important customers, suppliers and competitors are. Yet I find that many investors don't have a clue. One guy might have Ford on his stock-shopping list because he likes his Explorer and sees his local dealer moving lots of iron. Then he sees Ford stock pull back hugely on Monday, and his mouth waters. But did he consider that Ford's business plan could be derailed by a weakened yen, which amounts to a giant coupon for discounts on Japanese cars...
Last week the American Film Institute announced its list of the 100 best American movies, which naturally suggests the question, What are the worst American movies? We polled the experts...