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...president's first task will be to rein in the huge bureaucracy that has allowed the firm's 864 stores to be run much like medieval fiefdoms. Sears has begun peeling away layers of encrusted management, streamlining the field organization and centralizing decision making and buying at Chicago headquarters. Earlier this month, the company started an aggressive campaign to keep its 23 million charge customers despite Washington's demands for credit restraints. Merchandising experts say that the firm may eventually have to drop its policy of refusing to stock little besides its own brands. Sears still resists...
Accidents in private aircraft, which last year killed 1,215 people, occur in a variety of ways, but none more bizarre than the one that happened last week when Pilot Lou Benscotter picked up Robert ("Bo") Rein, the new football coach at Louisiana State University, and began to fly from Shreveport to Baton Rouge...
...above the maximum altitude for which it is certified, and presumably on automatic pilot. Zoerb tried to make contact with the Cessna by radio, but got no answer. He saw the plane go into a steep dive and crash into the Atlantic Ocean. Aviation officials theorize that Rein and Benscotter had passed out from lack of oxygen and that the Cessna had flown itself hundreds of miles before disappearing into...
Worse still is Brest's maltreatment of his cast. Though Burns and Carney are virtually fail-safe comics, the film's clunky timing robs them of their laughs. The crabby Strasberg is given free rein to show off his entire catalogue of italicized acting gestures. It says something about this movie that one feels nothing even when two of the three supposedly lovable heroes die. When a film is as moribund as Going in Style, death is not a tragedy but merely an anticlimax...
...Leader Kim Young Sam, believe that the constitutional changes could be completed in only three months and a general election held by next fall. Other nettlesome questions concerned the role of the army: how soon it might be willing to lift martial law, for instance, and how much free rein it might be willing to give civilian politicians. But for the moment even opposition leaders are praising the restrained post-assassination behavior of the military, whose senior officers genuinely seem to want to establish solid civilian rule. Says Kim Young Sam: "The army has no intention of entering into...