Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Right now he is a busy young god. He is the author of a new book, Far from Denmark (Little, Brown; $24.95), part autobiography, part candid, intelligent comment on performing and choreographing. In the past five years he has become an accomplished dance maker. In the next few months he will be completing new works for the Pennsylvania Ballet and the Hartford Ballet, as well as for City Ballet. This week the curtain goes up at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on his first attempt at Broadway choreography: the dances in a revival of George Balanchine...
Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the sole surviving U.S.-born and -bred motorcycle maker, is feeling wobbly. Last week H-D officials pleaded with the U.S. International Trade Commission hi Washington for import protection against Japanese-made bikes. Since 1978, argued H-D Chairman Vaughn Beals, Harley has lost more than a third of the so-called big-bike market (engines of more than 700 cc displacement), chiefly to Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki and Honda...
...home from the Soviet Union last week, a little dazed by Russian rhetoric but encouraged by the prospects of doing more business with the Soviets. Executives for Ingersoll-Rand, for example, arrived with a fistful of projects on which the Soviets wanted bids from the big New Jersey equipment maker. Distiller Joseph E. Seagram & Sons of New York struck a deal to sell the Soviets 8,600 cases of liquor for their hotel industry. Along with the booze will go a much needed seminar to teach Moscow's bartenders how to be less surly...
...trade chumminess came too late for Caterpillar, the big Illinois maker of earth-moving equipment; it sent no top executive from Peoria but was represented instead by Paul Smith, the company's man in Moscow. During the period of the Reagan halt on U.S. supplies for the Soviet natural gas pipeline, Caterpillar lost a $90 million sale of 200 large pipelayers, mainly to Japan's Komatsu...
Dissidents among Chock Full's 20,000 shareholders are led by Jerry Finkelstein, 66. He runs Struthers Wells Corp., a maker of power-plant equipment, and publishes the New York Law Journal. The dissidents claimed that Black had not set foot in his office for a year and had admitted he kept in touch with Chock Full through his wife. They said he had not attended a directors' meeting since August 1981, and knew the names of only four of his fellow directors. They charged also that Chock Full's president, Leon Pordy, Black's cardiologist...