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...Howard knew his company had a problem when he found himself dreading the good times. His firm, Sioux Chief Manufacturing of Peculiar, Mo., makes water-hammer arresters, which stop pipes from clanging. When demand periodically surged, the 350-person company was overwhelmed trying to handle the workload. "We had to do a lot of overtime, pull people off other departments, beg customers to take partial delivery of orders," says Howard, 61, Sioux Chief's materials manager. "It cost us money...
...managers sat down to figure out how to avoid such crises. Demand for arresters--and for many of the 7,000 other products the company makes--is affected by the weather, the economy and changes in building codes. What Sioux Chief really needed was a fortune-teller--and now Howard has that job. His crystal ball: a $4,995 Forecast Pro software program from Business Forecast Systems, based in Belmont, Mass. These days Howard's prophecies help everyone at Sioux Chief stay sane...
...September 11, HarperCollins will publish "On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald and 9/11" by Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of the brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald, and Tom Barbash. Cantor Fitzerald suffered the largest number of casualties in the September 11 attacks. According to the publisher, "every member of Lutnick's young firm who was in the office that morning - nearly 700 traders and salespeople, lawyers and accountants, 164 of his partners, including his brother Gary and his best friend Doug - perished in the North Tower." The book details how the surviving employees have been able to keep the company...
...that the Brits, when they are at the top of their game, can't still hit one out of the park. Howard Davies' masterly production of The Iceman Cometh a couple of seasons ago revitalized the Eugene O'Neill war-horse for a new generation. Former National Theatre director Richard Eyre is currently presenting a powerful Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, with a ferocious starring performance by Irishman Liam Neeson...
...fall on either side of a clear dichotomy. Either there is constructive interference where artistic harmony and concord make it such that the sum total is greater than the individual parts, or a spectacular train-wreck of a collapse results from divergent intentions. The work of Gerry Bergstein and Howard Johnson, featured at the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston, mercifully stays on its tracks, as both artists explore items of personal fetish, fascination and self-reflection...