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...everything in the books becomes an automatic hit. Chicago Mail Order Merchant Joseph Sugarman found few buyers for his $ 1,500 laser-beam mousetrap. But for products that do not sell out, there is always Grand Finale, a discount catalogue that specializes in marketing goods left over from other catalogues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mail-Borne Cornucopias | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

...almost certain that the Soviet authorities will tap the phone," Kate Sugarman '83, head of the Soviet Jewry Committee at the Hillel said last week, adding, "we really have to be careful about saying anything controversial that would further jeopardize the safety of the refuseniks-we really just want to give them a moral boost...

Author: By John D. Moore, | Title: Hillel Phone-In | 11/8/1980 | See Source »

...Kentucky Senator Wendell Ford said that the agency had offended every businessman in his state. He noted that Louisville's Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., in answer to a subpoena, spent three years and $800,000 to ship the FTC 14,000 pounds of documents. Chicago-area Businessman Joseph Sugarman, the owner of a mail-order firm selling home computers and burglar alarms, took out half-page ads this month in papers around the country to cry: "The FTC is harassing small businesses, but I'm not going to sit back and take it!" He claims his company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Open Season on the FTC | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...Paul Sugarman, former president...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Casus Belli | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

...conscientious administrator who wants to get a job done, carry out a President's orders or an act of Congress, the bureaucracy is often more of a hindrance than a help. "Managers feel they are so enmeshed in red tape that they cannot manage any more," says Jule Sugarman, vice chairman of the Civil Service Commission. Aside from directing an employee to the nearest coffeepot, there is little that a supervisor can do without encountering some cumbersome regulation. The 18 General Schedule (GS) grades of the civil service are largely insulated from outside pressure. An employee gets automatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Battle over Bureaucracy | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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