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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Investors who buy commodity-futures contracts bet on whether the price of such staples as silver and soybeans will rise or fall. Now they can earn truly heady rewards from wine futures...
...Buy it or not, The Good Woman has all the nasty wit of his best known work, The Threepenny Opera. Unfortunely, Opera collaborator Kurt Weill was long gone when Brecht wrote this play, so director Serban commissioned hip New York composer Elizabath Swados to score Brecht's songs. Some of her past work like Runaways, has been pretty vile, but in Good Woman some of her curt, antimelodic songs are pretty fair substitutes for Weill. This is less laziness on Swados's part, I think, than the fact that Weill's music was the perfect accompaniment to Brecht's cynical...
...Savings and loan officers in Texas, all with six-figure salaries and bonuses, loot their institution to buy Rolls-Royces and trips to Paris...
...major drive to increase its exports to the land of Honda and Toyota. Walter Sawallisch, director of marketing for BMW Japan, recalls vividly the reaction his company got from industry experts: "When we began, people told us there was no chance at all. They said the Japanese would never buy foreign- made cars...
...thousand cars annually through a network of 33 dealerships owned by a Japanese company. The BMWs were almost casually displayed in large showrooms that also contained such disparate products as imported cameras and audio equipment. Convinced that sales could be much higher, BMW made the bold decision to buy the dealerships and start a full-scale Japanese subsidiary. The company chose Yoji Hamawaki to direct its new offensive. He is a marketing whiz who spent 14 years selling Kawasaki motorcycles in the U.S. before moving to BMW Japan as president...