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...Massey company broke off negotiations after West's slaying. Company President E. Morgan Massey came close to accusing U.M.W. President Richard Trumka of fostering violence. Said Massey: "Mr. Trumka can turn the violence on, he can cut it off at will, and he uses that as a bargaining tool." The union leader in turn said that the Massey firm was merely foot dragging. Talks have resumed but have produced nothing...
...Reagan tried to speak, Gorbachev interrupted, "Please answer me, Mr. President. What is your answer?" Again Reagan began to reply; again Gorbachev angrily insisted, "Answer my simple question...
...cushion between them and their aides huddled around. Shultz quietly advised that negotiations at the staff level were not going well. Then Shultz, so seemingly bland in his public utterances, took a bold step. He dramatically pointed across the room to a Soviet official, Georgi Korniyenko, and declared, "You, Mr. Korniyenko, are responsible for this. Mr. General Secretary, this man is not doing what you want. He is not working in your best interests...
...firm. Says she: "Appointing a woman as president was a high-risk thing to do at the time." Barbara Gardner Proctor avoided the problem in 1970 when she founded her Chicago advertising agency by naming it Proctor & Gardner. Some early clients, she recalls, "assumed that there was a Mr. Gardner who ran the business, and I was in sales. I did not dissuade them from believing this...
...first such licensed product was probably the Mickey Mouse watch in 1933. Retailers now annually sell more than $40 billion worth of these goods, ranging from Dynasty perfume to Mr T guitars. The popularity of corporate logos may have begun with people who proudly sported the brand names of machinery they used, such as farmers who wore International Harvester caps or truck drivers with Peterbilt belt buckles. Anheuser-Busch during the 1970s began to put its Budweiser logo on such souvenirs as dart boards and Frisbees...