Word: unite
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...John Amos definitely should not have been cast as a no-nonsense major in a crack army anti-terrorist unit. He's just too goofy-looking to play any role considered to be even remotely dangerous. He looked more realistic pushing imitation MacDonald's hamburgers in Eddie Murphy's brilliant Coming to America...
...price of $50 million in 1980, Harper revived the frozen-dinner company by adding 90 new selections. In the Beatrice deal, Harper reportedly picked up the company for less than half the price initially sought by financiers Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Harper's management philosophy is to allow each ConAgra unit a high degree of autonomy. "We have more presidents than banks have vice presidents," he says. ConAgra's low-key style has paid off handsomely for shareholders. After ten years of record earnings, ConAgra stock that cost $100 in 1978 was worth $3,772 by the end of last year...
...materials that depict bestiality, defecation, sex with children and the torture of women, won all 26 obscenity cases they have brought since 1988. At the federal level, the Justice Department secured 120 obscenity indictments last year, up sharply from 26 in 1987. But the department's National Obscenity Enforcement Unit has tended to focus on nationwide wholesalers of the hard-core stuff...
...members each. One result: profits have risen 250% since 1982. "By the mid-1990s," says Luther, "we'll define good management as the ability to get out of the way." Managers at Eastman Kodak decided to let the folks on the factory floor run the professional-film manufacturing unit. In 1989 the unit, which had run $1 million over budget, came in $1.5 million under. Such feats should be ballyhooed as an example to other workers, says Paul Schumann, a creativity consultant for Austin-based Technology Futures. His advice to managers: "Make heroes out of employees who personify what...
While spinning its tale at warp speed, Total Recall creates a coherent world that is part prophecy, part satire. On future Earth the unit of money is, of course, a "credit." Folks flick on the wall-screen TV to check out ESPN's coverage of the Toronto-Tokyo game, then perfect their tennis stroke with the help of a teacher on hologram. Johnnycab, the robot taxi driver, chirps irrelevant pleasantries until passengers want to throttle him. A married couple debate whether to move to Mars -- as if it were the suburbs -- or to Saturn ("Everybody says it's gorgeous"). Perhaps...