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Like love and marriage, the idea of creating a global car company is not new. Lee Iacocca, even as he scrambled to save Chrysler during the dark years of 1979-81, dreamed of creating what he called Global Motors, a fully integrated international car and truck builder and seller. Global Motors would be one of perhaps six to 12 similar consortiums that would be all that remained of the more than 30 car companies operating...
...Jefferson County, where wildlife agents set traps last summer seeking jumping mice. They caught no Preble's but did get 218 other mice and one rattlesnake. "It's ridiculous to protect the animal when no one can even seem to find it," says Lacy. Tom Taylor, a Colorado Springs builder, concurs: "What's the population count? Are they really more endangered now than they used to be? Who is to say?" Taylor had to spend four months redesigning a construction project after four Preble's mice were found on his land...
...Gurion was the great architect and builder of both. Throughout the tragic years from 1936 to 1947, while millions of Jews were rounded up and murdered by the Germans, denied asylum by almost all nations and barred by the British from finding a home in Palestine, he subtly orchestrated a complex strategy: he inspired tens of thousands of young Jews from Palestine to join the British army in fighting the Nazis, but at the same time authorized an underground agency to ship Jewish refugees into the country. As the British were intercepting, deporting and locking away these survivors...
...known as Chainsaw Al pulled a fast one last week, buying three companies when everyone assumed he would be selling his own. In the process, the CEO of Sunbeam Corp., the small-appliance maker, carved a kindlier image for himself: Al Dunlap, builder. No, the Chainsaw did not have an attack of conscience. Dunlap, who seemed primed for an exit, decided to try something different. And in keeping with his flair for drama, he spent $1.8 billion in a single day for three companies--all with striking possibilities to complement one another: Coleman Co., which makes leisure equipment; Signature Brands...
This is no ordinary builder. Dunlap adds by subtraction--and he will run these appliance makers through his corporate Cuisinart. Jobs will go; tears will flow. But that doesn't mean Dunlap's makeover is a farce. He has an ambitious growth strategy, which he appears determined to stick around to oversee. That's new stuff for Dunlap, 60, a churn-around pro who in the past has followed swift cost cuts with the well-timed sale of his company. The formula worked wonders for shareholders in 1994-95 at Scott Paper, where he cut the head count...