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Cost of Living Adjustment, a.k.a. COLA...
...lady to the rich and famous Kathrine Baumann. New to her menu of ritzy glass-beaded purses, clutched by such celebrities as Liz Taylor, Melanie Griffith and Barbara Walters, is what she calls "the great American meal," a hamburger, fries and a bottle of Coca-Cola. It's hardly a take-out order for the common gal, however. This little set of McTrinkets costs about $6,000, which comes to more than 1,000 "great American meals...
...time for the three-day Easter holiday were also to blame. The bond market benefitted from those fears, with yields on 30-year Treasury bonds hitting 7.06 percent, up from 6.98 percent late Wednesday. Key victims of the frenzied sell-off included heavy weights Allied Signal, 3M, Exxon, Coca-Cola and Procter &Gamble. The dollar, meanwhile, also suffered, taking a slight dive to close at 123.48 yen and 1.6898 marks...
...N.B.A. player to be a league licensee. "I just kept seeing all these people wearing my T shirts, and I was not getting a dime from it," he says. From that came "Magic's 32," a store selling his T shirts and other merchandise. He later bought a Pepsi Cola distributorship with Black Enterprise publisher Earl Graves. He has since sold Graves his interest. Johnson's basketball and business skills --he owns a piece of the Lakers--have made him worth more than $100 million...
...says Silverman. "Nor are we in the real estate business.'' The main clients of HFS are the thousands of franchisees who fork over royalties and fees in return for the right to use HFS brand names and receive support services ranging from national advertising campaigns to discounts on Coca-Cola, computers and televisions. The franchisees can even get help setting up employee-retirement plans...