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...reason is a careful strategy of making acquisitions that expand NCI geographically and also fit into an integrated structure that makes NCI the lowest-cost producer in its industry. Sheer size helps: the company has become one of the 10 biggest U.S. buyers of steel, enabling it to wangle discounts unavailable to competitors. It also saves on transportation costs by locating--or buying--plants close to steel mills. NCI builds its own automatic welding equipment, specially designed to weld mainframes of buildings together. Five years ago, it began buying painting plants, and it is the only company in the industry...
...biggest and wealthiest of Harvard's nine faculties. It includes everything from Harvard College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to Widener Library and the Fog Art Museum...
...winner work to Bush's advantage as in California, a state where the G.O.P. has factions inside factions. In April 1998, Bush went West to campaign for gubernatorial hopeful Dan Lungren in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Silicon Valley. At one event, about a dozen of Lungren's biggest backers practically cornered Bush during a private conversation and pressed him to run. Bush demurred, in deference to Governor Pete Wilson, who was still considering another run at the nomination. But he winked. "I want to be your second choice," Bush told them, tipping his hand...
...often what all those computers generate is a runaway budget. But this summer's two dead-cert hits are the Mike Myers parody Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Adam Sandler's Big Daddy, each of which cost only $30 million. "Even if your comedy has the biggest star in the world--Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy--it's still more economical than a gigantic effects movie," says Amy Pascal, president of Columbia Pictures, which is releasing Big Daddy. "No matter what you do, no matter who's in it, a comedy doesn't cost $100 million...
...voice has a serene balance, like a sailboat on still water; live, she unleashes turbulent gusts of feeling. Her new versions of Hold On, about losing a friend to AIDS, and Possession, about a controlling lover, reveal glimmers of rage that her studio albums only hint at. From her biggest album, 1997's Surfacing, the ode to love gone bad, Do What You Have to Do (which popped up in the Starr report when a certain intern's jottings to the President cited it as her fave), becomes a taut wire of despair as its restless, searching piano line plays...