Word: warners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Psychologist Maslow, for example, once wrote that he found it difficult "to conceive of feeling proud of myself, self-loving and self-respecting, if I were working, for example, in some chewing-gum factory . " Well, two weeks ago, Warner-Lambert announced that it would close down its gum-manufacturing American Chicle factory in Long Island City, N.Y.; the workers who had spent years there making Dentyne and Chiclets were distraught. "It's a beautiful place to work," one feeder-catcher-packer of chewing gum said sadly. "It's just like home." There is a peculiar elitist arrogance...
...checks, more than 12 million generally affluent credit card-holding customers, and 44,000 employees in 1,000 travel offices and 77 international bank branches and investment offices. American Express also has some less well-known holdings, including a 50% interest in a cable television subsidiary of Warner Communications and total control of giant Fireman's Fund Insurance (1980 sales: $3 billion). Shearson's main offerings to the merger were 11,000 employees in 270 U.S. and overseas branches, plus $8 billion in assets in popular money-market funds, which in recent months have lured a small army...
This sort of corporate taste, together with an obviously strong case of business smarts, has got ECM a felicitous distribution arrangement with Warner Bros. Records, which takes care of manufacturing and marketing and gives Eicher a free creative hand. Eicher, in turn, gives them not only jazz that sells records-a rare enough commodity-but jazz to boast about, jazz that sets a style and a standard. A young jazz musician would want an ECM label the way a short-story writer would want to be published in The New Yorker...
...have the education and experience adults do, so Governor King has nothing to fear in taking things away from us," Clark H. Warner, a student at Cambridge Ringe and Latin, told the crowd. "But we will be heard and won't stand around while our education is being threatened," he added...
...Edwin Warner...