Word: maker
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...largely or wholly owned by employees. About 50 or 60 of them, like Weirton, were on the verge of being closed down when they were bought out. Among the largest in recent years have been Rath Packing Co. in Waterloo, Iowa, with sales of $435 million, and bearing maker Hyatt Clark Industries in New Jersey, which had sales of $66 million in its first ten months under employee ownership. Both companies lost money last year. But Corey Rosen, executive director of the National Center for Employee Ownership in Arlington, Va., says that only four employee-bought companies have failed since...
...weeks after TeleVideo goes public, Gulfstream Aerospace is expected to follow. Paulson, a former airline mechanic who once sold secondhand airplanes, set up a company in 1976 that two years later bought Grumnian American Aviation Corp., maker of the Gulfstream line of corporate aircraft. Its principal product, the 19-passenger Gulfstream III fanjet aircraft, costs upwards of $10.5 million and, according to the offering prospectus, boasts the longest range and fastest cruising speed of any business aircraft. In 1982 the Savannah-based company's sales rose by 33%, to $575.5 million, and profits more than tripled, to $43 million...
...Edwards' Victor/Victoria, the Academy seems ready to forgive Edwards for his 1981 satire on Hollywood, S.O.B. And for the fifth spot in the Best Director category, the nominators picked a name virtually out of the blue - or, rather, out of the deep -Wolfgang Petersen, the young German film maker who directed Das Boot...
...maker of Tylenol, Johnson & Johnson had the most to gain by renewing consumers' trust. Before the murders, Tylenol had 37% of the $1.2 billion painkiller market; that share slipped to 7% during the scare, but has now rebounded to 24%. Tylenol's new wrapping offers triple protection: 1) the outer box is glued shut; 2) the cap and neck of the bottle inside the box are encased in a form-fitting shrink seal; and 3) an airtight foil seal covers the opening underneath. Like some other manufacturers, Johnson & Johnson says it has not raised prices to cover...
...there on the periphery, at the edge of the frame. What is a punk rocker doing in the rural highlands? Why does that motorbiker keep burp-burping through the action without explaining himself? Forsyth isn't telling. He's just laughing to himself, a shy, shrewd film maker worth bending near so you can hear what he has to say amidst the contemporary...