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...save money, Hudson's designers have cut out many of the back-up systems that NASA rockets use. Space agency officials worry about the resulting risks. Hannah points out, however, that his company carries $25 million in flight-liability insurance to cover any mishap. If a runaway Percheron came down in, say, the Houston Astrodome, $25 million might not even begin to cover the costs...
...Occupational Safety and Health Administration. This ten-year-old agency has been the embodiment of runaway regulation. Over the years, OSHA has issued thousands of health-and safety-related rules, right down to specifying the design of stepladders and the location of fire extinguishers in factories. Under Reagan Appointee Thorne G. Auchter, 36, a Florida construction executive, OSHA is changing direction. Auchter promises to stress cost-benefit analysis as the means of achieving the Government's goal at the lowest cost to companies. Says he: "We don't want to end all regulation, but we want...
...Lucas started making movies? But there is more to the success of Raiders than the simple, "Let's see it again" pleasure it is going to give audiences, though that, of course, is its most basic virtue. In a troubled time for the American movie, a time of runaway costs, indifferent craftsmanship and stiffening competition from new entertainment technologies, Raiders is, in fact, an exemplary film, an object lesson in how to blend the art of storytelling with the highest levels of technical know-how, planning, cost control and commercial acumen. Most of its relatively low, $20 million budget...
...final arbiter of everything turned out by Industrial Light and Magic, his special-effects shop down the road. A man who believes in careful preplanning-all his films are meticulously story-boarded-he simply cannot be conned into spending money needlessly by a careless line producer or a runaway director. Typical is his attitude toward casting. "All I care about is good acting...
...investment-banking firm of White Weld, dozens of executives quit to avoid being consumed by the world's largest brokerage house. But there is a strong Marine-like esprit de corps among the troops at Merrill Lynch that stems from the psychological and financial rewards of being the runaway...