Word: maker
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Levering, Moskowitz and Katz started out with a list of 350 companies that were recommended by executive recruiters, management consultants, business-school teachers and other sources. The authors then visited 114 companies that range in size from Celestial Seasonings, the herbal-tea maker, which has 200 workers, to IBM, the largest computer manufacturer, with 218,000 employees. Besides studying company-benefit brochures and interviewing factory workers and executives, the authors poked around cafeterias and corridors listening for candid comments...
...programs they buy. Sinus Software of Sacramento, Calif., maker of the hit Type Attack, in 1983 issued three or four new games every month. This year, however, it will not introduce a new one until next month, and since October it has laid off 15 of its 35-member staff...
...world's greatest wines, has enhanced its name by decorating its labels with the work of the greatest artists of the time, from Picasso to Chagall. A number of smaller American vineyards have now taken label decoration a step further: emphasizing the artwork over the maker's name. Styles include art nouveau, abstract and realistic; at least one vineyard is putting photography on labels. Zaca Mesa uses several styles, clothing some of its varietals with twin panels of golden oaks and distant hills. Says Ream: "If you go into the supermarket-where the industry is headed-you want...
...Wall Street, AT&T stock fell 12.5? a share, to $15.75, the day the machines were announced. Shares of IBM limbed $1.63 to $113.88, while those of Digital Equipment, the second largest computer maker, rose $3.75, to $91.25. Said a Digital spokesman of the challenge posed by the new AT&T products: "We are vigilant but not scared...
...Angels cornered the methamphetamine market by cornering the chemists. In taped interviews with the O.S.I.T., made available to TIME, Eaton stated, "They find someone already making speed and say, 'O.K., now you make it for us.' " Typically, a Hell's Angel would pay a drug maker $25,000 for five pounds and advance him another $25,000 for the next five. "Now the guy owes the club," Eaton explained. The profits are handled illicitly. Said Eaton: "You try to sidestep the IRS, you get yourself money managers. Money is power. It buys policemen, judges...