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...very clean ascent for Atlantis; there were no problems encountered on the way to orbit," said Brian Welch, commentator at Mission Control in Houston said. The two solid fuel booster rockets successfully burned out two minutes and eight seconds into liftoff. Failure of a booster rocket joint caused the Challenger's destruction...
Nomura and Japan's other giant securities firms have harvested huge profits from a bull market that has raged on the trading floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange for six years. The Japanese call it the age soba, or rising market, ascent has been dizzying: the 225-stock Nikkei index -- Japan's equivalent Dow Jones industrial average -- has surged 400% in value since beginning its bullish burst. The $3.5 trillion now invested in the Tokyo market makes it world's largest. Even the devastation wrought by last October's global stock only temporarily dampened the spirits of Tokyo traders. Although...
...late widow Jacqueline Roque, whom she denounces. Her biography becomes an interminable pecking session, to the point where she even finds fault with Picasso for becoming rich. "It took a lot of money to keep Picasso in bohemia," sneers the author, who in 1986 capped her own social ascent in Reaganland by wearing an $18,000 gown at her heavily publicized wedding to Texas Oil Heir Michael Huffington...
Another DeLay student, the sloe-eyed, Roman-born Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, has had a rapid ascent since her 1981 victory in the Naumburg International Violin Competition. Salerno-Sonnenberg, 27, is a mediagenic performer hailed by some for her intensity ("the Edith Piaf of the violin," a colleague has called her) and scorned by others for the eccentric collection of tics, twitches and transports that form her onstage persona. But there is no gainsaying her vivid stage presence, or the enthusiasm with which she imbues her performances. Other noteworthy women violinists include the Kavafian sisters, Ani, 39, and Ida, 35, both...
...Erickson advertising. Admits Kellner: "When you're going against companies that have the power of ABC, CBS and NBC, you're taking on a pretty heavy job. It's like climbing Mount Everest." The first small steps up have been encouraging enough for the viewer to hope that the ascent continues...