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...trip did not begin propitiously for Haig: he was already miffed that Weinberger had commandeered Air Force 86970-the posh 707 used by Henry Kissinger when he was Secretary of State...
...Japan. Says he: "Americans are as quality conscious as the Japanese. But the question has been how to motivate them." Yamada's way is to bathe his U.S. employees in personal attention. Workers with perfect attendance records are treated to dinner once a year at a posh restaurant downtown. When one employee complained that a refrigerator for storing lunches was too small, it was replaced a few days later with a larger one. Vice President Masayoshi Morimoto, known as Mike around the plant, has mastered Spanish so he can talk with his many Hispanic workers. The company has installed...
Pretrial mudslinging has even reached the posh offices of Commissioner Pete Rozelle, whom Davis charged with scalping tickets to last year's Super Bowl. Rozelle vehemently denies this, though he admits selling a dozen tickets at face value to a travel-agency director who resold them as part of Super Bowl tour packages. The scalping charge is the latest round in a long-running feud between Davis and Rozelle, czar of the merged leagues. Rozelle has refused comment, but Davis is less restrained, saying: "I think he's corrupt...
Granville says that he reached the decision to send out the sell order last Tuesday afternoon. Sitting in his posh, stuccoed office in Holly Hill, Fla., he watched the Dow Jones briefly hit 1013.13 before closing the day at 1004.69, a four-year high. In his Jan. 3 newsletter, he had predicted that the market could easily go up another 50 points from its level of 963.99, but looking afresh at the indicators he follows, Granville decided that the top of this bull market had been reached. Says he: "It involved no decisions on my part. I was just following...
...electronic sting with international repercussions: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police joined with the FBI to catch the criminals. By tracing phone calls, they soon got their man. Or rather boys. The culprits, only 13 years old, were four clever students at New York's Dalton School, a posh private institution on Manhattan's Upper East Side...