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...largest public offering of an American company, insurance giant Allstate raised $2.1 billion in June, selling 79 million shares at $27 each. Allstate, which jumped as high as $33 a share, is now trading around $31. Iwerks Entertainment, a Burbank, California, start-up that produces specialty theaters for 3-D movies, sold $100 million worth of stock last month. Issued at $18 a share, Iwerks soared 15.5 points on its first day of trading. It closed at $34.50 last week. Other high-flying IPOs include General Nutrition Companies, a chain of health-food stores whose stock has soared 228% since...
...Burbank Professor of Political Economy Dwight H. Perkins called Khai a "major figure" in the effort to open up the Vietnamese economy and move in a more market-oriented direction...
...Middle America. "The President should remind himself," says presidential scholar Stephen Hess, "that the people who elected him get their hair cut, not styled, by barbers named Ed, not Cristophe, and they pay in cash, not personal-services contracts." The speed of passage of the haircut from Beltway to Burbank monologue set a new indoor record...
...local supplier (either a cable system, a phone company or a joint venture) from giant computer disks called file servers. These might store hundreds of movies, the current week's broadcast programming and all manner of video publications, catalogs, data files and interactive entertainment. Remote facilities, located in Burbank, California, or Hollywood or Atlanta or anywhere, will hold additional offerings from HBO and Showtime, as well as archived hits from the past: I Love Lucy, Star Trek, The Brady Bunch. Click an item on the menu, and it will appear instantly on the screen...
Like most natives of the San Francisco area, Eastwood grew up scorning Los Angeles. Unlike other actors whose careers drew them toward the studios, Eastwood kept his distance. He created two lives, one based in his office on the Warner lot in Burbank, the other up the coast in Carmel. His friends there have included a schoolteacher, a former bar owner and an itinerant barber. Film is rarely a topic of conversation. Carmel residents protect his privacy, even those who disagreed with his policies -- such as a modest liberalization of the zoning laws -- when he was mayor...