Word: nevins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN. John Nevin, the crusty chairman of Firestone, gives credit to Japan's Bridgestone for bailing out his company with a $2.6 billion buyout last year. But that has not removed the vast differences in the ways the two companies communicate. "I'm seen as terribly abrupt and abrasive," says Nevin. "If you're very direct, you're admired in American culture. The Japanese culture is much more subtle. I can never get them to tell me what they actually mean, and they may think I'm rude and crass. But both sides are only behaving in ways familiar...
STILL, much of the show's banter is as boring and subtle as this exchange between a blitzed Senator Bedderly (Nevin Steinberg '89) and Agent Tess Tosterone: "You're drunk," she says. "And you're ugly," he retorts. And don't forget fat, an insult which finds its way into every other joke...
...year-old Firestone will emerge from the agreement as a smaller company, operating retail tire stores and manufacturing building materials. Most of the $1.25 billion will be distributed to Firestone shareholders, who suffered during the recession of the early 1980s. Firestone Chairman John Nevin decided that the Bridgestone offer was a windfall for shareholders too good to pass...
Most undergraduate bands get their start playing on campus at house committee parties. The busiest times for bands on campus include Halloween, Valentine's Day and Head of the Charles weekend, says Nevin D. Steinberg '89, who plays bass for Christian and the Infidels...
Akron is stunned at the loss of about 450 jobs. Mayor Don Plusquellic tried to dissuade Nevin from making the move, but found him "adamant." Two shareholder lawsuits seek to block the relocation. They charge that it would waste money and that Firestone directors did not let shareholders in on the decision...