Boston Business articles from January 1 1991

Boston Business archives from January 1 1991

Bargaining chips. (Start Up) (column)
January 1, 1991... Bargaining Chips Despite global turmoil, Dan Burnstein sees happy days ahead. Call him an optimist. Burnstein believes there's a growing recognition that armies and nuclear arsenals are not the best means to settle disputes, that...

Subject to abuse. (Diversions) (column)
January 1, 1991... SUBJECT TO ABUSE VICTOR WAS A HARDWORKING investment banker. He spent 80 hours a week at the office. At age 30, he made partner. But he had a problem: cocaine. Victor secretly checked himself into a 28-day rehab clinic. After his release, he...

Signs of the times. (Institutions) (column)
January 1, 1991... SIGNS OF THE TIMES JOHN BREAULT CLIMBS A set of creaky stairs early one morning and enters a studio that overlooks the Charles River, Boston Harbor, the financial district, and a web of freeways. This atelier, however, has no windows, no...

Virtual reality. (M.I.T.'s media lab)
January 1, 1991... Virtual Reality It was nearly six o'clock in the evening, and the Japanese fellow sitting next to me in Kresge Auditorium was fast asleep. We were helping to celebrate the fifth birthday of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's...

Where eagles dare. (the Grey Eagles of Data General) (Cover Story)
January 1, 1991... WHERE EAGLES DARE Never mind that one attendee of the Grey Eagles' reunion party remarked that he was "pleasantly surprised that there wasn't a food fight." Never mind that this October gathering of high-tech cowboys came in pinstripes,...

Own a piece of the bloc. (Eastern Europe; includes related articles)
January 1, 1991... Own a Piece of the BLOC The New York businessman and the Russian entrepreneur sat together in the cavernous Moscow restaurant in the dim, chandelier-illuminated section reserved by the maitre d' for patrons who bribe their way in with...

Dear prudents. (investment advice; includes related article)
January 1, 1991... DEAR PRUDENTS Okay, so Jose Canseco's ailing back and refrigerator-door-jammed, bowling-ball-sensitive middle finger were October omens. Omens that the invincible Oakland A's, who had turned our BoSox into liver mush, weren't invincible...

In the eye of the beholder. (investing in fine art)
January 1, 1991... In the Eye of the BEHOLDER There are art collectors and there are investors in fine art. Gallery owners and art dealers may be secretly glad that both exist, but you'll never hear them admit it. Instead, should you evince greater interest...

Doctor stock. (independent analyst Lee Allen diagnoses companies)
January 1, 1991... DOCTOR STOCK Lee Allen works alone in a modest apartment with a great view of Boston. Every morning he wakes up at 5:30, gets his kids ready for school, and commutes ten feet to work, where he begins the day by reading the Wall Street...

Is it nice to rent Mother Nature? (At The Close) (column)
January 1, 1991... Is It Nice to Rent Mother Nature? You know those old stories about the slow-talking country cousin who makes fools of the city slickers? Call the one "Country Cousin Makes a Buck." Ten years ago, farmer Bob MacArthur, now of Cambridge,...

Stretching it? (At The Close) (column)
January 1, 1991... Stretching It? The realists among us may have accepted the idea that not everyone can get away with wearing a clinging body suit while exercising. Such sexy attire, we know, is reserved for the already perfect. But that doesn't stop those...

Wash 'n'glow. (At The Close) (column)
January 1, 1991... Wash 'n' Glow Talk about finding a niche. Since its founding in Dorchester in 1935, the UniFirst Corporation has prospered by manufacturing, renting, and cleaning industrial uniforms. Following its credo of identifying "growth...

Victorious secret. (boudoir photography for servicemen in the Persian Gulf) (At The Close) (column)
January 1, 1991... Victorious Secret Jim Hoopes has a tough job, but someone's got to do it. You know, any sacrifice for Our Boys overseas. Hoopes does what many a 14-year-old boy dreams of doing--he takes pictures of women in their lingerie. And these days...

Self imaging. (The Best) (column)
January 1, 1991... Self Imaging Joseph Sieber planted his feet, fixed his grip around his six iron, and took a long look down the fairway at the Newton MDC golf course. He raised his club, poised to swing. That was when it his him. Inspiration. Sieber,...