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There is something different about Dole. He resides in the offices where the grandiloquent Everett Dirksen used to cut deals and drink bourbon. Dirksen was the ultimate Senate creature, as smooth and pliable as the leather chairs in the cloakroom. But Bob Dole has not been captured by his surroundings. He is still off there standing up like a silo on the Kansas prairie. He could be blown down by the political winds. But shouldering against the hot gusts in Washington sometimes builds strength...
Victor Kiam is steamed. Perhaps a certain sympathy is due. After all, this is a man who became a king of commerce and a television-commercial celebrity, even rated a profile on 60 Minutes, all by dedicating himself to a single proposition: the male face should be smooth, sheared of growth, preferably by the ministrations of a steady hand holding a Remington Micro Screen shaver. And now look what has happened. Stubble is sprouting on faces everywhere. Stubble is--even Kiam has to face...
...practical ritual (Jack Dempsey never shaved on the day of a fight) or of casual defiance, like the raggedness of the 1950s beats. Actors showed stubble in movies only when their characters had been through the wringer or on a bender; even rebels like Brando, Dean and Clift were smooth cheeked. But when Clint Eastwood rode through those Italian westerns in the '60s, a meaner, more maverick kind of frontier hero was born, an amusingly amoral gunslinger whose standard equipment was a Colt Peacemaker, a cheroot, a sarape and a five-day stubble. In 1975 when Italian Designer Giorgio Armani...
...economy during 1985 carried U.S. business ahead at the sleepy pace of Ol' Man River. Rolling along at a modest 2.4% rate, it provided most companies with just enough propulsion to make for a comfortable ride. But if the economic mainstream was smooth, the trip for many voyagers was as hair-raising as a Snake River rafting expedition. In 1985 a parade of slumps, scandals, panics and just plain goofs rocked the business world. All the while, an unprecedented wave of acquisitions was swallowing up such well-known corporate names as ABC, RCA, Nabisco, General Foods and Revlon...
...surprising that this decreased morale and productivity contribute to the finding that half of all mergers yield disappointing financial results. Fortunately, firms can take steps to minimize the human costs of acquisition through comprehensive human-resources planning, effective communication programs and carefully chosen techniques to facilitate a smooth postmerger integration. Mitchell Lee Marks Los Angeles...