Word: webber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston-based Yankee Group, a leading electronics analyst, sales are expected to explode from a mere 35,000 in 1980 to 1.5 million this year. Smith sees shipments rising to a dazzling 3.5 million in 1983. Says Barbara Isgur, an industry watcher for the Wall Street firm of Paine, Webber: "This year is the turning point. We have entered the age of personal computers...
Wall Street analysts, however, are more cautious. "I don't think we can scream that the recovery is at hand," says Maryann Keller of the Paine Webber investment firm. Even after an upbeat May, auto sales for the year so far are 36% less than during the same months in 1978. The automakers continue to confront the problems that first triggered their prolonged slump: high interest rates, a weak economy and fierce competition from Japanese imports. Says Fran McCormack, general manager of Clayton Motors Dodge in East Hartford, Conn.: "There are obviously a lot of people who need...
...would soon be in technical default on $4.2 billion in loans because its net worth would drop below $1 billion. Although the lenders could push the company into bankruptcy at any time, they are not expected to take that step. Explains Eli Lustgarten, vice president and analyst at Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins Inc.: "The banks are in just as deep as Harvester, so they will likely come up with a new agreement...
With such material, who could go wrong? Probably lots of people, but Webber and Rice are not among them. They have not aimed so high as they did in their later Jesus Christ Superstar or Evita, but compared with those hits Joseph is better rounded, more buoyant and totally unpretentious. Despite its several transformations and elongations, it retains the child like wonder that it must have had when it was performed by children...
...country and western song in one scene, sombreros for a Mexican mariachi number in another. Joseph, played with spirit if not much conviction by Bill Hutton, is a blond beachboy in shorts and a cutoff shirt. Nothing is sacred, yet at the same time nothing is profaned. Webber and Rice have written a show merely to amuse and entertain, and they have succeeded...