Word: webber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Guide (circ. 17 million). TV Guide publishes 107 regional editions; in the past year it has increased its cable coverage to 40% of the listings space. But it is not system-specific. Publishing industry analysts reason that there is room for both weeklies. Said J. Kendrick Noble of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "The new magazine could become the principal TV directory for upscale families who have cable...
...Gurewitz, 54, a Brooklyn cab driver: "I saw him on TV and I like the guy. He's turning around a company that was down the drain. He has guts." Nor has lacocca's commercial charisma escaped notice by Wall Street's savviest auto analyst, Maryann Keller of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins. Says she: "I wouldn't doubt that people have bought Chrysler cars just because they wanted Lee lacocca to make...
...annual budgets through 1986. A large chunk is in hand in lacocca's $900 million cash kitty. And he is counting on generating the rest from profits and cash flow over the next four years. It is not a scenario that can withstand unpleasant surprises. Says Alan Webber, a former transportation-department aide who is now a senior research associate at Harvard: "One false step and they are off the tightrope...
...counterparts at Ford or Chrysler. Officials there look for a more modest increase of 10%, to sales of about 6.3 million autos. That is paltry by past standards. In 1978, the industry's most recent peak, 9.3 million U.S.-made cars were sold. Says Maryann Keller of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins, regarded as one of the best among Wall Street's 20 or so auto analysts: "By historical standards it's still bad. But it's better than what the industry's been through...
Cats. Some adore it. Some deplore it. The lyrics of T.S. Eliot, the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and the spectacular stage effects of Director Trevor Nunn and Designer-Costumer John Napier have made Cats a conversation piece and a flaming megahit. The Dining Room. Clear-eyed, touching and buoyantly funny, A.R. Gurney Jr.'s drama compassionately graphs the decline of the Wasp, a breed apart...