Word: manhattanization
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...Details, a bratty, street- talking melange aimed at men in their 20s and early 30s; Men's Life, a smirky yet sentimental blend of National Lampoon and the Saturday Evening Post directed at fortyish suburban baby boomers; and M Inc., a merger of two prestigious but money-losing forerunners, Manhattan, inc. and M, that is meant, like its predecessors, for the well heeled and silver templed...
...pages, much the fattest of the entries, but it was able to draw on the articles stored up by both its parents. In looks the merger retains more of M, but, as the first issue's cover signals, the sensibility is pure Manhattan, inc. It proclaims POWER BROKERS in letters 1 1/2 in. high and names 11 of them (10 men and Madonna). Inside is an almost nonstop stream of gossip, scuttlebutt and awestruck praise about the rich and famous, including 65 miniprofiles of such figures as financier Michael-David Weil and Hollywood superagent Mike Ovitz. The prose is burnished...
...imposing hardships that recall the severe slumps of the 1970s and early 1980s. Major American companies are slicing costs to the bone and declaring sweeping layoffs. "It's going to be brutal. Many businesses are broke, but won't admit it yet," says Irwin Jacobs, a Minneapolis financier. Chase Manhattan, the second largest U.S. bank, is letting go 5,000 employees, or 12% of its work force, in a struggle to remain solvent. McDonnell Douglas, the No. 1 defense contractor, is slashing its payroll by 17,000 workers, or 13%. At the General Electric plant in Louisville that makes refrigerators...
When Keith, 31, first raised the issue of a prenuptial agreement with his fiancee Sarah, 32, she balked. For a month the Manhattan stockbroker danced around the subject, then he pressed hard. "I said if we don't sign a prenuptial, we can't get married," he recalls. Finally Sarah, an advertising executive, consented, and each hired a lawyer. Keith's attorney drafted the first version, largely to protect money the groom expects to inherit from his family, and Sarah "flipped out," says Keith. "She was almost in tears." It took months before the couple hammered out an agreement that...
...suit, filed last April in the Manhattan federal district court, is the first such case involving a copying company ever to come to trial. The plaintiffs charge that two New York City Kinko's shops failed several times to obtain permission from publishers before printing college sourcebooks which contained copyrighted material...