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...nearly six years ago, the Schaumburg, Illinois-based electronics company had been chased out of the TV business, lost its lead in stereos and surrendered its No. 1 position in computer chips. It was even close to raising the white flag in cellular telephones. Fisher could have taken the well-worn corporate-turnaround path by slashing costs, closing divisions and laying off employees -- all to boost the bottom line, and ultimately Motorola's stock price. Instead he engineered one of the most remarkable transformations in U.S. corporate history, turning Motorola into a worldwide leader in microprocessors and cellular phones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Builder, Not a Slasher | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

...further protection, the Iceman wore a woven grass cape over the garment similar to those used by Tyrolean shepherds as late as the early part of this century. His well-worn size-6 shoes were made of leather and stuffed with grass for warmth. Last month an Italian expedition turned up an additional furry piece of the Iceman's wardrobe, probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stone Age Iceman | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...fiction and screenplays mold real-life friends and family into characters. In the case of writers like Kerouac, novels are memoirs with the names changed. I have romantic images of the "research" that drives fine writing--images of the writer ambling down a narrow city street with a well-worn notebook in his back pocket. But I've upset friends before by referring to them in print. Ironically, to be honest about my life in print requires a certain callousness about the people I am closest...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Endpaper | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

...fiction and screenplays mold real-life friends and family into characters. In the case of writers like kerouac, novels are memoirs with the names changed. I have romantic images of the "research" that drives fine writing--images of the writer ambling down a narrow city street with a well-worn notebook in his back pocket. But I've upset friends before by referring to them in print. Ironically, to be honest about my life in print requires a certain callousness about the people I am closest...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Writing for Living | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

...scene that captured the news last week was of stately superlawyer Clark Clifford, that icon of Washington power brokering for five decades, clutching his fedora and lowering his well-worn face in a Manhattan courtroom. There he and his younger partner Robert Altman faced charges that they took millions in bribes to act as front men for the notorious Bank of Credit & Commerce International. But even more significant may be a legal move related to the grand jury indictments of last week: Saudi Sheik Kamal Adham, the longtime head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and one of the most powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Riyadh Connection | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

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