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...Sears was more like a far-flung feudal kingdom than a smooth-running company. Store managers ordered goods in a haphazard way and sometimes ignored merchandising strategies planned at headquarters. Telling cut costs and raised sales by imposing discipline and direction from the Sears Tower in Chicago. To add spark to the company, he eased out complacent old-line executives and appointed younger, fresher lieutenants to key positions. Says Telling: "It was very lonely. What I did had to be done, but I knew I wouldn't be very popular...
...fine print of the 751-page 1984 Deficit Reduction Act is a fundamental change in the way the tax code treats foreigners who invest in the U.S. The measure could attract more money from overseas, which would help finance the U.S. budget deficit, hold down interest rates and perhaps spark a boom in the stock and bond markets. Indeed, the rally seemed to have already started last week...
...public confidence in all U.S. banks. Even though each deposit up to $100,000 in a federally chartered financial institution is insured, many Americans began wondering about the safety of the money in their banks. Financiers feared that the failure of Continental, once the eighth-largest U.S. bank, could spark a chain reaction of similar collapses and set off financial panic...
...details of engineering the new Continental are finished and announced. " Continental officials last week appeared to be delaying announcement of the bank's second-quarter results, which are expected to show large losses, until a rescue plan is ready. It was believed that disclosure of the figures could spark another panic...
...Only Problem has any formal difficulties, they lie in the beginning of the book. Harvey is the novel's central and most appealing character; but the story does not begin by focusing on him. Although Spark's narration is usually smooth, the reader feels something of a jolt when the camera begins to follow Harvey's life exclusively. Here the author seems to have had an unclear idea of the nature of effect she wanted for her novel; she seems to have been torn between making it a cartoon and making it a movie. Perhaps this is not a great...