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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Divests RCA because of antitrust considerations. Creates the GE Credit Corp. to help sell appliances during the Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Business Of America | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...weld the owners of the new, expanded league into a cartel. This too required an exemption from the antitrust laws, which Congress granted in 1966. One morning the three major television networks woke up and found not a collection of individual teams competing with one another to sell their broadcast rights, but a single entity with a growing sense of its value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETE ROZELLE: Football's High Commissioner | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...risk of oversimplifying a rather complex business phenomenon, it can be said that the easiest way to grasp the essence of what Sam Walton meant to America is to read his ad slogan emblazoned on all those Wal-Mart trucks you see barreling down highways around the country: WE SELL FOR LESS, ALWAYS. Walton did not invent discount retailing, just as Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile. But just as Ford and his cars revolutionized America and its industrial model, Walton's extraordinary pursuit of discounting revolutionized the country and its service economy. Walton didn't merely alter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Discounting Dynamo: Sam Walton | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...John E Welch Jr. becomes CEO and begins to decentralize management. GE will buy nearly 350 businesses and sell more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Business Of America | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...CHAIRS The recline of civilization began in 1928 when two cousins, Ed Shoemaker and Ed Knabusch, invented a comfortable wood-slat porch chair, choosing the name La-Z-Boy. They then decided to upholster the chair so it would sell year-round. La-Z-Boy Inc. had sales of more than $1 billion in fiscal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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