Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intrepid? Efforts must play to Eastern Europe's limited strengths. There is nothing necessarily wrong with the region's engineering and craft skills; it's the managerial savvy that is lacking. Joint ventures sound attractive, but their history provides many caveats. Licensing agreements may be the best bet, if they don't require the import of components that have to be paid for in scarce hard currency. In any case, those aspiring to become the Armand Hammers of this generation may recall that after five years, in 1930, Hammer sold his pencil factory in Moscow...
...fair number of businessmen, at least, are willing to bet that she's right. Ritz-Carlton is proceeding with plans for a $140 million hotel on St. Croix scheduled to open in late 1992. Great Pond Bay Resorts just won approval for a $250 million project with 350 hotel rooms and 600 condos. If the islands all do struggle back, it may be because in the end Hugo could not destroy what most people come to the Caribbean to find. It could not make the sea less bright or the sun less clear, or bestir the starfish or break...
...nation's foremost opponent of environmental neglect and genetic engineering is waving a $20 bill as he makes a bet. The scene happens to be a meeting of the Humane Society in Houston, but the wager, which is part of his script, could just as easily be offered to a gathering of born-again environmentalists in Aspen, Colo.; at the Los Angeles home of TV producer Norman Lear; or on a college campus. Jeremy Rifkin bets that no one can answer this question: "What value has emerged in the past 100 years as our most dominant value, a value that...
While "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is the "in" game right now among young people, the games of choice among Crimsonites are mainly sports games. Visit the suite of Harvard hockey goalie Chuck Hughes and you can bet on watching "Tecmo Football," a game which pits real NFL teams against each other...
...metal. Appliances, that is. Be good at it too. Get you right into that Kenmore 831 series washer when what you were really thinking about was the 701 at 56 bucks less. But oh so politely, so that you later reckon it was your idea in the first place. Bet he loves to fish and swap tall tales. Family man. Churchgoer. Never kicked...