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...result of the two-wheeled skid: H-D's work force has been chopped 40%. The company has asked the International Trade Commission for an average tariff of 40% on Japanese bikes for five years. That, contends HD, would narrow the price gap between Harleys and Japanese bikes to what it was in 1977 before the Japanese began holding down prices. A favorable ITC ruling would not give Harley an open road. President Reagan, a foe of import controls, must decide what relief, if any, Harley gets...
...harm but a prolonged one may be devastating. Observes David Healy of Drexel Burnham Lambert: "I don't think the strike threatens Chrysler's survival. It is beginning as a nuisance, but it could be severely disruptive if it continues." The financially fragile company can survive a skid, in other words, if not a total spin...
...meet nice boys when you live on Skid Row," laments the heroine in Little Shop of Horrors, the cheery, off-Broadway hit now playing in New York City. You don't meet nice plants either. The star of the show is a wonderfully animated blob of garden life named Audrey II that takes a carnivorous delight in human blood. The description once fit Roger Corman, 56, too. But that was in the days when he ran American International Pictures, producing such classics as Not of This Earth, A Bucket of Blood and a little-known 1960 pastiche shot...
Sperry's dominance of the booming boat-shoe market is not unchallenged, however. The Timberland Co., a family-owned business that operates out of a former mill in Newmarket, N.H., is aggressively going after the no-skid business...
Seymour Krelboin, a nebbishy lad who works in Mushnik's Skid Row Flower Shop, is in love with Mr. Mushnik's daughter Audrey. By crossing a butterwort with a Venus's-flytrap, Seymour creates a new plant type, which he calls Audrey Jr. and which, it happens, feeds on human blood. As it feeds, it grows, until it has spread over the entire store. Soon the notoriety of Audrey Jr. brings the little shop more business than it can handle. But there is a catch in this Faustian bargain: Seymour must oblige the plant's noisy...