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...majority of people who will be grilling the burgers and steaks this summer will do so on cookers that cost less than $500, plenty of nesters, having redone their kitchens with commercial-grade equipment, are spending several thousand dollars on this posh patio or that garden accessory. In the '90s, a $3,000 grill was shocking; now manufacturers are seeing how high consumers will go, and the ceiling hasn't yet been reached. "The backyard has become another room in the house," says Shaun Chinsky, brand manager for Vieluxe, a $6,000 barbecue brought out this year by the company...
...match with Dr. Mahathir," said Aussie Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, and the entire nation rallied around that line. TIME surveyed Australia's best and brightest and none volunteered to stand up to the feisty Malaysian. Tart-tongued former Prime Minister Paul Keating, who publicly clashed with Mahathir in the '90s, refused to comment, as did Aussie icon Paul Hogan, nationalist politician Pauline Hanson, Wolverine Hugh Jackman, Guy Pearce, Cate Blanchett, Elle MacPherson and Kiwi Gladiator Russell Crowe, who grew up down under. Publicists begged off for Nicole Kidman ("She's up to her eyeballs in a film right...
...Honeywell qualified by a country mile, and so will a lot of other U.S. mergers. E.U. and U.S. antitrust officials work closely together, and for most of the '90s, if American companies could get a deal past their own government, they could get it past the EU. (The last big merger spiked by the EU, WorldCom-Sprint, was denied by the U.S. a day later.) Now, Bush's hands may be off the gates, but Monti's are still on. Which suddenly makes Europe a very imposing gatekeeper...
...prides himself on his command of English). His performance on Tuesday suggests he plans to do his best to turn his trial into a political tribunal of his nemeses, and he'll almost certainly do his utmost to embarrass the Western powers who at different points in the '90s treated him variously as the guarantor of Balkan stability and the fount of Balkan instability...
...routers and switches Cisco can't sell. So a lot of investors are hedging their allegiance to technology--and rightfully so. If you want easy odds, take the Lakers to threepeat. Investing in tech has never been a lay-up, save for a few aberrational years in the '90s...