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Founded in 1923 by Hugo Boss, a German tailor, the company concentrated for decades on the production of uniforms and work clothes. In 1967 two of Boss's grandsons, Uwe and Jochen Holy, took over the firm with the goal of moving it in a new direction. The brothers decided to make business suits for executives who want formality with a hint of flair...
...Chinese thus hope to develop more badly needed consumer industries by encouraging enterprising managers who know how to use the new freedoms to create profits. The transformation at the Haiyan shirt factory is the work of one such man, Bu Xinsheng, 52, its manager. The son of a Shanghai tailor, Bu started sewing shirts at the factory in 1956, and moved up in the ranks by earning a reputation as a hard-driving worker. When industry officials decided in 1979 that the factory needed revitalizing, they tapped...
...Republicans have a tough act to follow. Last month's Democratic Convention, with its history-making nomination of a woman vice-presidential candidate and its stirring speeches, was tailor-made for television. "The Democrats ended up with a sense of movement and energy," says a Reagan aide. "The G.O.P. is moving too, but almost entirely on the shoulders of one man, Ronald Reagan. We needed to find some way to use Dallas to broaden out." The President's strategists hit on a double-barreled solution: the party's rising stars and prominent women will be featured speakers...
...Houston Symphony: "If Ormandy were young today, nobody would expect him to stay 40 years with his orchestra." The globetrotting, if-this-is-Tuesday types are not about to be tied down. "It's easy to stand up and beat time and have fancy choreography and a good tailor, but that does not make a good conductor," observes Fleischmann. "What we need is magicians capable of performing mysterious acts with an orchestra." Alas, the favored trick today seems to be the vanishing...
...Schools as well as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Center for African Studies at Boston University Such flexibility is necessary, some say, because the K-School does not have many of the courses they had wanted to study. "The flexibility of the program allows you to tailor it to suit your needs," Evriviades of Cyprus says. "For example the Fletcher School does a better job with law and diplomacy because they have been doing it longer and developed an expertise...