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Mary Kay Cosmetics has become famous for rewarding its top sales women with pink Cadillacs, diamond-studded bumblebee pins and expense-paid trips to Hawaii. Such glitzy incentives are not the norm among publicly traded companies, but Mary Kay (1984 sales: $278 million) does not have to worry. It will...
Most news organizations withdrew their personnel from Beirut in March, after Associated Press Correspondent Terry Anderson was kidnaped. He is still missing. Last week, however, more than 100 Western correspondents poured into the Lebanese capital. The U.S. networks faced a special problem: because Beirut's satellite ground station was destroyed...
For a plan that aims at a radical simplification of the Internal Revenue Code, Ronald Reagan's tax reform seems remarkably complex. To explain it, the Treasury last week issued a paperback volume of 461 pages studded with charts and at times singularly opaque prose. Sample: "A customer of a...
With their studded leather jackets, their taste for swastikas and grisly death's-heads, their pulsing choppers, their scraggly beards and their penchant for violence, the Hell's Angels in the 1960s became the nightmarish flip side of the American dream. During the 1970s, however, they attempted to scrub their...
Above all else, Citizen Hughes is first-class investigative reporting. It is studded with names, dates, facts and intrigue. Not really a biography--Drosnin's treatment of Hughes's life before the 1960s is definitely too skimpy--Citizen Hughes explores how power in America can be bought, sold and abused...