Word: polaroiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looked like some horrifying Polaroid, a rock-'n'-roll Dorian Gray, "positively skeletal," as he remembers, "and mentally about the same." He took a small apartment in the Kreuzberg section, a neighborhood that was "nice, tough and working class," and set about the serious business of cleaning up, recovering a certain kind of anonymity ("Berlin's absolutely the opposite of Los Angeles?star status doesn't mean anything") and starting over. Music was his only continuity. It was a lifeline. "Brian Eno came to my rescue in a way," he says now. "He came along and said, 'Hey, I have...
...president of Pepsi-Cola. Osborne, the leading maker of portable computers, recruited as its chief executive Robert Jaunich, 43, former president of Consolidated Foods. Atari, a strong force in home computers as well as video games, has snared a string of executives from such companies as Polaroid and Bristol-Myers...
...series will bear little resemblance to the gray, grainy, slapdash shows that made Child a kitchen word: no more dropped eggs, lumps in the sauce or uncarvable suckling pigs. Dinner has a slick new format, a grant of about $1 million from Polaroid, one of her previous underwriters, and, of course, mouth-watering color. Instead of concentrating on the making of a single dish, each 30-minute segment will include the preparation of a dinner for ten, an interview with a master chef and a winemaker, a "gathering" sequence in which Julia seeks out her raw materials at their source...
...drawback to offering resignation or early-retirement bonuses is that the company cannot control which workers choose to leave. Talented employees may go because they feel certain of finding other jobs, while deadwood workers, with no other employment options, may hang on. Polaroid, for example, suffered an unintended loss last May from its early-retirement plan. Richard Young, 56, who was Polaroid's $210,000-a-year director of worldwide marketing, "retired" with a hefty pension and later became president of Houghton Mifflin, the book publishers, at a slightly lower salary...
Nonetheless, Polaroid insists that it has few regrets. Says a spokesman: "We may have lost some good people, but we eliminated the need for a major layoff." More and more managers seem to agree that it is easier to let employees jump through open windows than to try shoving them out the door...