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...Guevara and a quick, painless revolution, replaced by the allure of pyramid schemes and cheap trips to India. Although it's too late to buy the love of Iran's youth, the mullahs seem happy to settle for torpor. "You have a situation," says my friend Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst in Tehran for the International Crisis Group, "where the majority of Iranians have neither the luxury to risk their livelihoods waging political protest nor the nothing-to-lose desperation and rage that result from penury...
...trendy? New CEO Myron (Mike) Ullman wants you to think so. He has introduced new lines from Nicole Miller and Chris Madden to the mid-tier department-store, Internet and mail-order business while streamlining sales and launching a new "emotive advertising" campaign. "Mike's a marketing wizard," says analyst Bob Buchanan of A.G. Edwards & Sons. "He tells the customer that just because she doesn't make 100 grand a year doesn't mean she can't look good." Penney's earnings quadrupled in the first quarter over last year, to $172 million. Ullman's clearly doing something right...
Over the past two years, its competitors wised up and realized that they too could goose up sales by adding some variety to the menu. In some cases they copied many of Wendy's most successful products. "That never happened before," says Janice Meyer, a fast-food-industry analyst for Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). "It took them out of their game." McDonald's launched a line of salads, preaching a newfound concern for health. Burger King and Hardee's took the low road, heavily promoting gut-busting sandwiches like the Enormous Omelet and the Monster Thickburger--names that only...
...more successful. A vicious case of measles in his youth left him with a limp that would have required him to repeat the whole process. Frustrated, he left the military in 1957. He enrolled in Harvard Business School and, after graduating, began a career as an investment analyst. He worked at Putnam Management Company before transferring to Wellington and becoming a portfolio manager...
...sizable chunk of Miami's condo buyers--as much as 70%, estimates real estate analyst Lewis Goodkin--is made up of investors itching to flip condos like scalpers wanting to unload Orange Bowl tickets. And the story is similar in other highly developed metro areas. The biggest-paying bets in Las Vegas are being laid on the condos and hotel condos (essentially, hotel suites that you can buy) going up on the Strip. On Valentine's Day morning, Bruce Hiatt, a broker and co-owner of Luxury Realty Group, showed up at the Strip's Four Seasons Hotel with...