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Forget Sears, Roebuck. Nowadays Sears, Tiegs might be more appropriate. In 12 million American homes, the first image Sears customers are seeing as they flip through the new fall-winter catalog is the cover picture of Model Cheryl Tiegs, wearing a cardigan sweater and an autumn plaid skirt, her smiling face and long blond tresses beckoning potential buyers into the magic world of America's largest retailer. Sears has taken a fancy to Tiegs, embracing her in its catalog and TV commercials and identifying itself with her wholesome all-American looks. The chemistry has been sizzling. Just two years...
...steps to put some order into the remuneration of top executives. More U.S. corporations are making executive pay depend upon the company's performance over several years, rather than just annual profits. That way, at least, they will avoid he embarrassment of rewarding poor performance. Firms like Sears, Roebuck and Borden link executive bonuses to high stock prices and dividends. At Sears, where first-quarter earnings increased 34%, to $214 million, Chairman Edward Telling posted a 1983 salary of $1.4 million, up 36%. A study by the Peat, Marwick, Mitchell accounting firm of the 1,000 biggest industrial companies...
...independent investment banker. Founded in Montgomery, Ala., in 1850 by three immigrant brothers from Bavaria, Lehman Brothers moved its main office to New York City after the Civil War and soon established itself as a major investment firm. It helped finance such struggling young companies as Sears, Roebuck and Pan American World Airways, and one of its partners, Herbert Lehman, served as Governor of New York State and in the U.S. Senate...
...company is in a better position to profit from this spending surge than Sears, Roebuck. The giant retail chain and catalogue merchant, largest in the U.S., is on a hot streak. After a decade in which profits sagged and the 97-year-old company seemed to have lost its sense of direction, Sears has found its way. During the first nine months of 1983, profits shot up 89%, to $759.5 million, while revenue surged 18%, to $25.1 billion. Around the Sears Tower, the 110-story black steel-and-glass skyscraper in downtown Chicago that still bears the title...
Gods do not make bricks, or build sun domes, or scramble for sassafras in the shrubbery of Central Park. But for people who do, or want to, the Whole Earth Catalog is an almost inexhaustible compendium. It is a sort of Sears, Roebuck-Consumer Report for the minorities of the cybernetic age-from activists who want to improve the environment to abdicants who simply want to write bad poetry in the woods...