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...chopped away at the company's work force, reducing it by about 10,000, to 47,000. Two weeks ago, 35 managers were dropped. An earlier casualty was David Judelson, Gulf & Western's president, who was passed over for Bluhdorn's job and resigned. Judelson had overseen the disastrous multimillion-dollar investment in developing batteries for an electric car that made a splashy debut in June 1980 but then dimmed...
John Whitlock, the attorney for Casablanca, said that the club owes most of its debt in taxes to the government, adding that the club's owners will be meeting with a special committee of its private creditors overseen by a U.S. government trustee June 22 to discuss repayment of Casablanca's debt...
...odds, if he only has faith in himself. "I don't believe it," Luke says in Empire, when Yoda levitates a spaceship. "That," answers Yoda, "is why you fail." It is a complicated universe of the imagination Lucas has laid out to express his themes, and he has tirelessly overseen its evolution, directing the first film himself and assigning the other two to carefully selected subalterns: Irvin Kershner for Empire and Richard Marquand for Jedi...
...Carré presents Charlie's education as an accretion of details, to be overseen by the reader as well. The author's mastery of atmosphere has never served him better than here. He wrings suspense not only from the urgency of his plot but from the complex texture of individual scenes. His characters must pursue moral absolutes in a dangerous world mined with ambiguities. Kurtz attempts to explain his crusade and his chosen victims to his new recruit: "Only those who break completely the human bond, Charlie. They deserve to die." Kurtz means terrorists, but he himself must...
...sense of security was inflicted last week when the Kansas City Star published an exposé of the department of public works. After a two-month investigation, a team of Star reporters who tailed 18 of the city's 46 building inspectors, among them two who had overseen the Hyatt Regency project, discovered that the inspectors were routinely falsifying work logs, more often than not spending their working hours bar hopping and merely driving by construction sites. One of the inspectors the reporters found derelict was the city's chief watchdog at a new hotel complex under construction...