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...acquisition of the Italian sports-car maker Qvale Automotive, which will help the company launch a new MG sports car next year, show an aggressiveness that is winning management some key fans. "We're increasingly positive about the future, especially since [this] company was on the brink of the abyss a year ago," says John Mantle, owner of Mantles Group in Biggleswade, England, which operates two Rover dealerships. "Looking ahead, I think they'll continue to prove the pundits wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rover's Return | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...were when Greenspan started this regime, owing mostly to a complete lack of a pulse in either corporate profits or capital spending. Big Al, staring at the chasm of time between and now and next spring, might have considered it pointless to throw an extra 25 points into the abyss - 25 points that might force him to start dousing the recovery, red-faced, as soon as it arrives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Fed Left Unsaid | 6/27/2001 | See Source »

...near where she was born. It isn't the most romantic of spots. In fact, the industrial park outside San Diego is kind of a turnoff. In the middle of the 700-sq-m Realdoll factory, seven barrels cradle what can only be described as human-back half-molds. Abyss won't let us photograph certain parts of the process for fear that industrial secrets will be revealed (and because a visual reminder that your girlfriend has a frame inside that looks like a lawn chair could spoil the mood. Unless your tastes run to patio furniture, in which case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Well, Hello, Dolly | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...feminine critics - and there are a few who are cranky about the paucity of Realguys - Abyss will soon be able to answer with a male doll. A strapping Conan: the Barbarian kind of guy with a friggin' enormous personality. At least judging from the model so far: it's still in clay form, where all of the dolls begin life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Well, Hello, Dolly | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...some members of the audience at the team's perceived inhumanity. "These people have absolutely no concept of the difficulty of even physically getting to the place we found Mallory, let alone the precariousness of that location for a climber merely trying to keep himself from hurtling into the abyss," Simonson says. "It's not until people die on the mountains that audiences wake up and realize how dangerous the sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-wired Mountain Act | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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