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When Mark Willes was an executive at General Mills, he ordered the company's Red Lobster restaurants to stop serving bread to diners because they filled up on it and ordered less food. It was therefore entirely in character when the relentlessly bottom line-oriented Willes, six weeks into his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DECLINE OF THE TIMES | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

Willes says the downsizing is just prudent management. "Expenses at the L.A. Times are higher than at other newspapers," he explains. "To get our returns back up to a competitive level, we have to get staffing down." But some contend that the Chandler family, which owns controlling shares of Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DECLINE OF THE TIMES | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

One new school that has been winning converts is that of rational expectations. This approach holds that the Government should not try to spur the economy through deficit spending and loose-money policies, since such efforts just jack up inflation. The proper economic role of Government, this theory argues, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Have All the Answers Gone? | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

49. Mark Willes, 38, is the youngest of the Federal Reserve's twelve regional bank presidents. He is also the most independent and outspoken. As chief of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, which oversees the North Central states, Willes has frequently been at odds with the other Fed regional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 50 Faces for America's Future | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Though 31 states do allow some degree of privileged communication to a clergyman, the right is still not recognized as a rule of common law. British judicial opinion since the Restoration has been almost unanimous in denying it, mainly out of ancient enmity to the confessional system of the Roman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Costly Advice | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

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