Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high technology are getting into the software business. Late last year McKesson, the drug and healthcare giant (1983 sales: $4 billion), acquired a half interest in SKU, a software distributor. Both CBS and Warner Communications have started software units. Also investigating or developing their own software are publishing nouses (Simon & Schuster and Random House), toy firms (Fisher-Price and Parker Bros.) and movie companies (United Artists, MCA, Walt Disney and Lucasfilm). But small firms seem to do best in the innovative world of applications programs. Cautions Software Publishing's Fred Gibbons, who runs one of the fastest-growing companies...
...musical scores for "The Winter's Tale" were written by Peter R. Melnick, a student at the Berklee College of Music. He and Warner have worked together in the past and are currently collaborating on an adaption of Neil Simon's "Fools," which will be performed at Harvard this month
Jardine's move renewed the apprehension surrounding the 1997 expiration of Britain's lease on 90% of Hong Kong's territory and its transfer to Peking. The company's decision to change its legal address could encourage others to follow. Jardine Chairman Simon Keswick, 42, stressed that his company plans to divide its operations between Hong Kong and other cities. But, he added, Jardine wants to keep its "ability to operate under English...
...Simon & Schuster; 672 pages...
...been more fortunate than most first novelists in the wealth of sources available for her imaginative reconstruction. She has drawn from the writings of two of France's great literary stylists and keenest chroniclers of the age, Mme. de Sévigné and the Due de Saint-Simon, as well as from the correspondence of the indefatigable Mme. de Maintenon, who left behind 80 volumes of let ters at her death in 1719. Rendered in an unobtrusive translation by Barbara Bray, The King's Way recounts in an elegant pastiche of 17th century prose the inelegant scramble...