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...cover depicts the President and First Lady as narrow-eyed, buck-toothed Chinese in Mao suits and Vice President Al Gore '69 as a Buddhist monk...
...which a generation of GM investors, analysts and observers might say, "Again?" GM has had more turnarounds than a buck private on guard duty, all of them leading nowhere. In the swift and ravaging decline of a single decade, GM's car sales dropped off by nearly 2 million vehicles, or 40% of its 1985 volume, a loss that was only partly cushioned by a 21% rise in truck sales. Management made poor, even inexplicable, choices. For instance, in 1983 the company suspended production of the Chevrolet Malibu, the country's favorite family car and one of its all-time...
Jordan took exception and a brawl ensued. When the dust finally settled, Ward, John Starks, Buck Williams and Luc Longley had been ejected and Jordan-much to his surprise--had been issued a technical...
That's just the problem, insists Amsterdam psychiatrist Frank Koerselman, one of the few in Holland to buck the consensus. "Patients are scared by pain and the loss of their dignity, so they immediately start talking about active euthanasia," he said. "They are badly informed about alternatives." In particular, says oncologist Zbigniew Zylicz, who runs a hospice for dying cancer victims outside Arnhem, "the knowledge and practice are very low for palliative care," the art of easing pain in the final stage of a terminal illness. Zylicz estimates that a quarter of the 400 or so dying patients...
...look now, but after shocking the airline and telecommunications industries, competition is about to jolt your sleepy electric company. Just ask Malcolm Buck, a software-support rep whose apartment in suburban Atlanta is wired for phone service, cable TV, high-speed Internet access, and security- and energy-management systems--all flowing through a single cable installed by the Southern Co., his local utility. Buck calls the electric-bill savings alone "pretty amazing...