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...sustainable, profitable growth--that seems to be the tricky part. Companies such as K Mart have performed brilliantly in the Sweeney Todd role, slicing overhead and enjoying the resultant earnings boost, but have failed to grow once the cutting stopped. That's the real problem facing Gerstner in the mirror each morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ACT TWO FOR BIG BLUE | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

QUOTE OF NOTE: "Historically, the mountains of North Carolina have shown a fiercely independent political streak and, as a longtime leader in agriculture conservation and education, I mirror that mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: NORTH CAROLINA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...between Lally and Gary Ackerman has, if anything, intensified this year. Calling his opponent a "corrupt, radical liberal," Lally emphasizes his own outsider status as a businessman (he once owned a company that made celebrity statuary). Although many of his proposals--like reducing taxes and pruning back the government--mirror the Contract with America, he has distanced himself from the G.O.P.'s more conservative fringe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: NEW YORK | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...radical things that somehow stick in the world's consciousness. And the most animal of institutions--such as slavery--do seem slowly to die out. Who knows where this could lead? Personally, I'd rather see Eden on the horizon--however dimly and elusively--than in the rearview mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCIENCE AND ORIGINAL SIN | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...tear his guts out," Dukakis says, glancing over at a mirror to see if he looks sufficiently impassioned. "I'd break his legs with my bare hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOULDA, WOULDA, COULDA | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

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