Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hospitals and distributors. McNeil agreed to turn over all of the company's distribution records to the Illinois department of law enforcement and to bear the cost of collecting unused and unsold Tylenol, an expense that could reach into the millions of dollars. Until now, Tylenol enjoyed a solid reputation and healthy sales. Analysts estimate that Johnson & Johnson sells be tween $300 million and $400 million worth of the analgesic a year. An $85 million advertising campaign has helped the company increase its share of the pain-reliever market from 4% to 37% since 1976. But the cyanide scare...
...hefty $325,000 an hour. Meanwhile, despite a potential audience that CBS market researchers estimated at 5 million households, advertising revenues offset no more than $60,000 an hour of costs, and often less. Said Analyst Joseph Fuchs of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Inc.: "CBS designed a solid-gold Cadillac when what might have worked was a Chevrolet...
...staff overall has been solid, if not spectacular. The youngsters as well as the veterans are holding up well down the pennant stretch, showing no signs of faltering. In little more than a week, for example, they shutout Expos tour times...
What it all adds up to is a no-name, or at least few-name, squad playing solid, exciting baseball. In the final analysis, it is Herzing who deserves much of the credit for building a strong team, nurturing talent and getting the most out of each of his players, a feat which might earn the Redbirds their first post-season appearance in 14 years...
Wyman is expected to give the company competent but unflamboyant management. One of his major achievements during the past two years was to end some of the internecine warfare between divisions of the firm. Wyman is also likely to pursue a strategy of consolidating the company's traditionally solid network and broadcasting divisions, while imposing belt-tightening measures on less profitable enterprises. Efforts are already under way, for example, to sell off the critically acclaimed but money-losing CBS Cable television service...