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...president of the Citizens' Council on Health Care: "You'll inevitably sweep up healthy people. And what happens when they refuse to be held? You're going to have Kent State all over again." The alternative, though, may be just as grim. In Maine, warns deputy attorney general Linda Pistner, there's nothing to stop someone with smallpox from walking out of the hospital. "Without this tool," she asks, "how else can we minimize the loss of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Quarantine, Meet Miss Liberty | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...1970s, Montgomery Ward could no longer hang on alone. After Mobil took it over, the retailer earned $105 million in 1978, but it soon slipped into the red again. The company was too big, too mismanaged, too out of tune with what consumers wanted. In 1981 Stephen Pistner, president of Minneapolis' Dayton- Hudson department store chain and a retailing wizard, was brought in to turn Montgomery Ward around. He hired Brennan, then chief executive of the Sav-A- Stop outlets in Jacksonville, to help him in the task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling It Quits | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...Pistner-Brennan team moved to reorganize the chain, eliminating 23,000 jobs, reducing the number of retail stores from 365 to 322, and cutting distribution centers from 150 to 33. In 1983 the company earned a paltry $40 million on $6 billion in sales, and last year it made $54 million on almost the same amount. In contrast, Sears earned $1.5 billion on sales of $38.8 billion. After launching the Montgomery Ward reorganization, Brennan left to run Household Merchandising, the company that embraces T.G.&Y. and Ben Franklin variety stores. The president's job at Montgomery Ward opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling It Quits | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

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