Word: brandings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time that Coca-Cola was thinking about getting out of wines, Seagram's (fiscal 1982 sales: $2.8 billion) was trying to figure out how to expand its wine business, which includes the Paul Masson brand. Its distilled liquor sales have been flat or falling, in part because Americans are drinking more wine. Former Bendix Executive Mary E. Cunningham, who joined the company in 1981 as a vice president of strategic planning, presented a report last year suggesting that Seagram's could reap larger profits in wine. The study mentioned three potential acquisitions, one of which...
...based McClatchy chain. So when Fanning left Alaska in May to take on the job of editor of the Boston-based Christian Science Monitor-making it the most prestigious top-editor post in American newspapering now held by a woman-fellow news executives predicted that she would bring her brand of vigorous change to the venerable (founded 1908) but stodgy daily. The Man itor commands an elite following for its international coverage and political analysis and enjoys unusual access to news figures because of its reputation for fairness. But the paper has been losing circulation, and perhaps influence, for more...
...energy over inspiration. He seems not to realize that in a one-man show, the only person he can upstage is himself. One wants to say to him: Ben, you got the part. Relax a little, and be what you are: a splendid actor and a brand-new star. -By Richard Corliss
Those who saw russet-tressed, incandescent Rita Hayworth dance before the movies drafted her knew she was a dancer to partner even the great Astaire. But few of them would have expected her to keep up with his wry, off-beat brand of comedy. She fills both assignments in You'll Never Get Rich. Offscreen she is easygoing and sometimes inert. Before the camera she is bright as a dollar...
...decade ago, when the brand-new International Style in architecture was seriously taken up by U. S. architects, many of them were surprised to discover that Wright had been its forerunner 30 years before, that by great European architects such as Mies van der Rohe he was regarded as a master spirit. In 1932 Wright published his Autobiography, a book which combined magnificent self-revelation with the most stimulating discussion of architecture ever heard...