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Pointless mixing of dissimilar firms now seems finished at Gulf & Western. Says Shearson/American Express Analyst Scott Merlis: "Few of their businesses were related to their other businesses." Instead, the company now seems determined to focus sharply on a few areas: consumer products (apparel, Kayser-Roth; home furnishings, Simmons), entertainment (Paramount) and financial services (Associates Corp...
Moreover, the fastest areas of manufacturing growth will be high-tech fields such as semiconductors and computers, while old industries will continue to suffer. A committee of academics, Congressmen, labor leaders and business executives, chaired by Senator William Roth of Delaware and Congressman Don Bonker of Washington, will soon issue a report concluding that by the 1990s, employment in such smokestack industries as steel and autos will shrink from the present 20% of the labor force to perhaps...
Even the chairman of the ACSR, Walther Salmon, Roth Professor of Retailing at the Business School and considered a conservative on shareholder topics, was reported to be disturbed at the Corporation's stance on the Sullivan principles Salmon was not available for comment...
...Norman Roth...
ACSR Chairman Walter J. Salmon, Roth Professor of Retailing at the Business School, said recently that a subcommittee is drafting a report that would offer two approaches for the advisory committee to make a recommendation to the Corporation on Nuclear investments. The ACSR may either support shareholder resolutions that ask companies to limit or reconsider their involvement in nuclear weapons production, or may recommed abstaining or opposing such largely symbolic proposals, he said...