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...real estate tycoon Donald J. (for John) Trump does not really loom colossus-high above the horizon of New York and New Jersey. He has created no great work of art or ideas, and even as a maker or possessor of money he does not rank among the top ten, or even 50. Yet at 42 he has seized a large fistful of that contemporary coin known as celebrity. There has been artfully hyped talk about his having political ambitions, worrying about nuclear proliferation, even someday running for President. No matter how farfetched that may be, something about his combination...
...gold, Swimmer Tamas Darnyi of Hungary to be chasing his own world record in the 400-m ind. medley, and Biondi to be continuing his medal chase, in the 100-m butterfly. On the basketball court the U.S. takes on the 1987 Pan Am winner, Brazil, and its colorful colossus, Oscar Schmidt. In the water Terry Schroeder captains the U.S. against defending world and Olympics champ, Yugoslavia...
...major dealer in Treasury issues and holds a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. In The Second Wave: Japan's Global Assault on Financial Services, Authors Richard W. Wright and Gunther A. Pauli put it this way: "Nomura stands alone as a giant among giants, a colossus whose stated goal is to be everything to everybody everywhere in the financial services business...
Campeau and Macy's are vying to form a retail colossus. Federated (1987 sales: $11.1 billion) owns 650 stores, including such lucrative chains as Bloomingdale's, based in New York City, and San Francisco's I. Magnin. If Federated combined with either Macy's (97 stores, 1987 fiscal-year sales: $5.2 billion) or Manhattan-based Allied Stores (286 stores, estimated 1987 sales: $3.5 billion), which Campeau Corp. bought in 1986, the merger would be the largest in retail history...
Abadia told a news conference earlier in the day that exercises begun over the weekend by the U.S. Southern Command were "acts of arrogance that are intolerable" and that Panama was "suffering the aggression of a foreign colossus...