Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that sounds corny, but somehow Olden makes Piper genuine and likeable. Even pulling is knife or punching out his shrink, Olden looks more troubled and pensive than simply angry and resentful. Too young and too untouched by the Francis Ford Coppola idol maker crowd to play the latest Matt Dillon or Poster of the Week, Olden acts and acts well...
...January, Nestlé acquired Ward-Johnston, the candy company that produces such matinee munchies as Raisinets, Goobers and Sno-Caps, and in April it signed an agreement to buy Hills Bros, coffee. Last week the company announced plans to purchase Los Angeles-based Carnation, the leading maker of evaporated milk, for about $3 billion, or $83 a share. The deal will produce the biggest non-oil takeover in history, and is expected to double Nestlé's business in the U.S. The transaction will provide a barrel of cash for the heirs of Carnation Founder Elbridge Amos Stuart...
...answering male character, Sarah's brother, who has taken up womanizing in an attempt to ward off the chill he feels gathering in his bones. It is not an entirely successful characterization, partly because such males have become a cliché, but mostly because Cassavetes, the obsessed film maker, does not really understand certain less exalted obsessions that may distractingly come upon a man. His character neither fully focuses nor finally explodes...
...those companies, Frito-Lay, the maker of GrandMa's Rich'n Chewy, has now countersued P & G for trying to eliminate competition in the $2.4 billion-a-year packaged-cookie industry. While denying that an employee had misrepresented himself in order to filch secrets, Frito-Lay admitted that it sent a worker to photograph the outside of a Duncan Hines bakery. But, the firm said, the man's college-age son acted without its knowledge when he walked into the plant and asked for unbaked dough. Frito-Lay said it destroyed both the dough and the photos...
...once booming videogame business has also been decimated. Industry leader Atari was bought by former Commodore President Jack Tramiel in June after running up losses of $652.9 million. The computer and game maker has given up space in more than 30 office buildings around the valley in an urgent effort to cut costs. Now Activision is also threatened. The firm, whose products include such popular games as Space Shuttle and Pitfall II: Lost Caverns, had a market value of $413 million in 1983 when its stock stood at $12.63. But Activision has lost money for four straight quarters...