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Cheever regularly threw away sentences that lesser talents might have hoarded, had they been capable of writing them at all. As a first-time parent, he confided, "Sending a child off to nursery school is like sending your bottom drawer off to the board of health." He could mock others, wickedly: "Edmund Wilson has printed a collection of questionable short stories and in one there is a long description of carnal copulation which would have done carnal copulation irreparable damage if it hadn't been quite as deeply rooted." And he could make fun of himself, including his diminutive...
...butter- soft cashmere overcoat, the private jet, the helicopter, the yacht with a crew of 14, the personal chef, the Rolls-Royces, the thing Maxwell really values most is time. Whether dealing with family, managers or minions, Maxwell is constantly ordering, pushing, scolding and hectoring, much like a nagging parent...
...longer sufficient for most owners of newspapers to show a good return year in and year out," says Ben Bagdikian, author of The Media Monopoly. "There must be increasingly higher returns because those profits are no longer just something that apply to that individual paper. They go to the parent firm, which is often paying off debt for mergers and expansions...
CCHI, the building's new owner, is a new company run jointly by HRI and Cambridge Neighborhood Association Housing Services, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of affordable rent-controlled housing. The two parent groups share staff but have different boards, said Daly, who directs both...
...executives who bought Nu-kote also felt ignored by their corporate parent. After the 1986 merger of the Burroughs and Sperry computer companies that produced Unisys, corporate headquarters decreed in a confidential memo that "ancillary" units would be put on the auction block. Reinhold Tischler, then president of the Nu-kote division, called his boss and said, "Ancillary division reporting in. We'd like to buy it." On Jan. 16, 1987 -- Tischler calls it Independence Day -- he and 20 other managers bought Nu-kote for $60 million. After they eliminated several aging product lines, overall sales grew 17% last year...