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Seen from miles away, it looks like a giant pearl-gray dirigible hovering over the African bush. Up close, its true shape emerges: a sandy-beige concrete behemoth topped by a gargantuan dome and a copper cross that gleams in the relentless sun. Equally remarkable, the great basilica is built in post-Renaissance style and has two long arms formed by 128 massive Doric columns that reach out from the porch to envelop a 7.4-acre plaza paved with granite and marble. Has St. Peter's Basilica been magically transported from Rome to the heart of Africa? No, this...
...class-action lawsuits have already been filed on behalf of Alaskan fishermen and businesses. The company is even getting something of a cold shoulder on Wall Street, where last week it ran into unexpected trouble selling a $110 million issue of two-year bonds, a modest offering for a behemoth with annual revenues of $88.6 billion...
Recruit was founded as an advertising-sales agency by Ezoe in 1960 with an investment of $2,000. Acting in accordance with his favorite slogan, "Money Comes First in This World," Ezoe built the three-man shop into a corporate behemoth, branching into real estate, supercomputers and restaurant and hotel management as well as a variety of information services. Stock in the expanding conglomerate was closely held until October 1986, when shares in its real estate subsidiary, Recruit Cosmos, were publicly listed on Tokyo's over- the-counter market. Those shares became a new and virtually cost-free vehicle...
...fortitude to stand in the way of a solid agreement between two of America's biggest companies? Yet Time and Warner have long been considered takeover targets, and speculation arose that a raider might go after one of them soon, before a merger could create a nearly invulnerable behemoth. Everyone from Rupert Murdoch to Warren Buffet, the shrewd Omaha-based investor, was mentioned as a possible buyer. But no suitor had come forward by week's end. Time's shares gained 6 5/8 for the week, to close at 115 3/4, and Warner's rose...
...airlines, and 600 more are on order at a base price of $20 million each. For longer and more heavily traveled routes, carriers are buying twin-engine 757s, which cost about $40 million and carry as many as 220 passengers, and the larger 767s ($58 million). The big-money behemoth of the line is Boeing's 747 jumbo jet ($135 million), for which the manufacturer has 172 orders...