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Usually such intelligence gathering is done legally, if deviously, by searching trade journals or eavesdropping on conversations in airport waiting rooms. Other times it is more blatant. Tennant, a maker of floor-maintenance equipment, was awarded $500,000 in damages last April from a competitor, Advance Machine. Two managers of the rival firm admitted sifting through trash containers outside Tennant's Oakland, Calif., office for sales leads. General Motors transplanted a grove of 30-ft. evergreens to block a favored vantage point of photographers trying to shoot long-range pictures of new models at its Milford, Mich., test track...
Silicon Valley has become famous for a laid-back corporate-management style that includes hot-tub conferences. Now along comes Andrew Grove, president of Intel, a leading semiconductor maker, with the valley's first primer on business: High Output Management (Random House; 235 pages...
There is another invisible presence in The Big Chill: that of Film Maker Lawrence Kasdan (Michigan '70). Kasdan came to a kind of shadow prominence writing scripts for George Lucas; if The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Return of the Jedi juggle craftiness with kid-innocence, it is partly owing to Kasdan's easy wit and trove of B-movie lore. His debut as a writerdirector, Body Heat, updated the Double Indemnity plot with equal measures of fire and ice. The Big Chill marks another sure step forward for Kasdan. This is a movie...
...Atlanta Apparel Mart is the first stop after New York on the August fashion tour for many women's wear manufacturers, and customers were placing orders in Atlanta that they could not make in New York. Said Bob Edelstein, regional sales director for Crazy Horse, a sportswear maker: "Many buyers I would normally see in New York, I'm seeing in Atlanta...
DIED. Luis Buñuel, 83, Spanish film maker considered one of the cinema's greatest artists; of bile duct disease; in Mexico City. Son of wealthy, religious parents, Buñuel and his friend Salvador Dali transfigured their fantasies in 1929 into one of the first surrealist films, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), a work of bizarre images including a man slashing a woman's eyeball with a razor. In 1930, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), with its brutal attacks on Roman Catholicism and bourgeois morality, established the ideological foundation for most...