Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...organization chart?only its chart has been turned upside down. In the box at the top where any other company would put the chairman, Federated's chart shows "the customer." From him, the lines run through layers of buyers, store managers, division heads to the box representing Chairman Ralph Lazarus?at the bottom...
...millinery designer, got his Bloomingdale's shop in 1969 and was there exclusively until about three years ago. Murphy persuaded Yves Saint Laurent to make clothes in the U.S., and Bloomingdale's opened a Saint Laurent shop before its competitors; it grosses about $ 1 million a year. In Ralph Lauren, Bloomies developed a designer from scratch. When Lauren was an unknown salesman of his own tie designs, Traub and Murphy encouraged him to do more ties, then men's suits and shoes, then women's blouses, skirts, pants and sleepwear. His boutiques now sell $4 million annually, and Lauren...
Otis resisted fiercely. Chairman Ralph Weller labeled United's initial $42 offer "totally inadequate" (the stock was then selling for $37.63) and asked Morgan Stanley & Co., an investment banking house, to find a "friendly" partner. Two weeks later, Otis won a preliminary injunction from the New York federal district court blocking United's offer on the ground that the company did not spell out eventual merger plans. Undaunted, United resubmitted its offer, changing it to a bid to buy "any and all" Otis shares. Early last week Otis announced that it had received a last-minute feeler...
...operates the Combat Zone just by looking around, so I take Ralph's word for it that sharpers have the upper hand. The scribbler putting the white space on the publicity posters at the Colonial Theatre to more efficient use is without a doubt near the bottom of the hierarchy. He favors light blue ink for his graffiti. There's barely enough room left for the note that he's carefully marking in tonight: "ChRiStiANS G.Green SAYS The OnLy Good 1 SA DEAd ONE. MASTER of CEREMONIES OF MONIES $ OR MASTERS OF DECEIT The ANGLOS." He shuffles to one side...
...about Ralph is that he gambles. He claims that fierce gamblers run the Combat Zone and he enjoys explaining the strange code, he calls it, that requires them to squash you if you don't hold your end of a deal. "You like to read, uh, poetry, right? Well these people like to gamble; that's their poetry, gambling...