Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adams had been in jail for eight years when Errol Morris, an avant-garde film-maker from New York City, came to Texas to make a documentary about Dr. James Grigson, known as Dr. Death to defense lawyers for his consistent findings that convicted murderers were so unrepentant that they deserved execution. In its zeal to help Morris, the Dallas district attorney's office turned over the dusty records from Adams' trial. What Morris found in the boxes was more intriguing than Dr. Death: evidence of a prosecution willing to bend, if not break, the guarantees of a fair trial...
...Madison Avenue's most enduring -- if not hardest-working -- characters: the Maytag repairman. Billed as "the loneliest guy in the world" because the company's products supposedly never break down, he has been portrayed by actor Jesse White since the Iowa-based appliance maker launched the campaign 21 years ago. But next month, at 70, White will hang up his never used tool belt. He will be replaced by actor Gordon Jump, 56, who portrayed radio-station manager Arthur Carlson in the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati. But White is not all washed up. Like many corporate superstars before...
...Italy's most famous antiquities is surely its telephone system. But now AT&T aims to help bring it into the 20th century. Last week Italtel, an Italian telecommunications equipment maker, said it has chosen AT&T as its partner in a five-year, $27 billion government-subsidized mega-project to rebuild the country's cranky telephone system virtually from scratch. As one of the main contractors on the project, Italtel will supply most of the basic equipment, while AT&T will provide the know-how, software and supercomputers that will make Italian phone lines hum efficiently...
...will not work until a sensor registers the presence of a seat upon the seat. The fruit of a two-year survey of the Japanese anatomy -- in search of the perfect angle for the water nozzle -- the Washlet is being aggressively marketed by its manufacturer, TOTO, Japan's largest maker of toilets. Promise the ads: "Your bottom will like it after three tries...
...U.S.W. staffer in Pittsburgh, "one of the ways American workers can compete is by having some investment income along with a lower labor income." But an ESOP is no guarantee that a company will thrive. Despite its stock plan, New Jersey's Hyatt Clark Industries, a ball- bearing maker, collapsed in 1987 because of poor labor relations...