Word: bigs
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...indeed portends global trouble, it's by no means clear whether it ought to. For all the controversy that GM technology is causing, the fact is that biotech companies have succeeded in dreaming up some extraordinary plants. Monsanto, which produces the hugely popular herbicide Roundup, has made just as big a hit with its line of genetically modified crops that are immune to the Roundup poison--thanks to a gene that company scientists tweezed out of the common petunia and knitted into their food plants. Other GM crops have been designed to include a few scraps of dna from...
...argues Phil Zacheretti, a senior vice president at industry leader Regal Cinemas, a privately held behemoth with 4,000 screens. Yet even AMC, the aggressive, $900 million-a-year pioneer of megaplexes, based in Kansas City, Mo., is scaling down some of its 30-screen locations. "When does the big wave of capital expenditure end and we get to see some return on the investment?" asks Stewart Halpern, a senior analyst at ING Barings, who remains cautiously bullish. "That point seems to keep getting pushed off further and further." And if they keep putting up more theaters, profits could remain...
Such souped-up plants are understandably popular with farmers, for whom even a slight increase in yield can mean a big increase in profits. Last year in the U.S., 35% of the soy crop and 42% of the cotton crop were grown with GM seeds. Says Karen Marshall, a Monsanto spokeswoman: "These really do work and have tremendous benefits to growers...
Santulli's operation got lift because many companies couldn't afford--or couldn't justify--owning a jet outright. Yet as commercial service deteriorated, they also found themselves at the mercy of big airlines. Fractional ownership splits the difference: expensive, but cheaper than full board; and the convenience helps compensate for the cost. Just try flying on commercial airlines from Mobile, Ala., to Moline, Ill., nonstop. NetJet offers everything from small Cessna Citation S/IIs up to the new Boeing Business Jet, a reconfigured...
NAME: Martina "Not Navratilova" Hingis OCCUPATION: Teen-age tennis phenom BEST PUNCH: After Serena and Venus' father predicted an all-Williams U.S. Open final, Hingis said he had a "big mouth" and the family "talk...