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...financial side of the business was often overlooked by the original entrepreneurial managers, who relied on high profit margins to cover up sloppiness. Under Charles Revson, Revlon ground out products in huge volumes, took long risks with new lines and often wound up getting piles of merchandise returned from stores. Many other cosmetics makers still do, but at Revlon, Bergerac has put in tight inventory controls and persuaded customers to pay bills more promptly. He figures that if the company were still being run the way it was when he arrived, it would have...
...things have ended, closing out a tough year. Nineteen-seventy-eight wound up producing the Core and a student government, a new governor and two new popes, the ballyhooed hope in the Mideast and the equally ballyhooed horror in South America. And of course the snow--soft and gentle, splendid in its beauty as in its potentially horrible strength
...known survivor had witnessed the entire ritual of death, so just how Jones died remained uncertain. He was found at the foot of his pavilion chair with a bullet wound in his head, an apparent suicide. A pistol lay near by. An autopsy disclosed that Jones had not consumed the poison and had not been dying of cancer, as he had often told his followers...
When co-captain Boyd missed a drop pass, sophomore right winger Tom Murray pounced on the puck near center ice and pushed it up to Johnny Cochrane, who streaked down the right boards on a two-on-one break. Using Murray as a decoy, he wound up at the right face-off circle and lasered a shot along the ice past Harrison's stick side, triggering stunned silence among RPI followers and a mass celebration on the Harvard bench...
Junior John Hynes, who received a severe baptism in the varsity nets last season but still wound up with the third best goals-against average in the Ivies, was beaten out at least for the moment by freshman Wade Lau for the starting goalie berth. Lau, a high school star in St. Paul, had a strong camp and was praised by players for his ability to force shooters to commit themselves...