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...fascinating, if not heartening, to see how the sexes wittingly embrace their stereotypes. The men (competing under the testosterone-y name Versacorp) exude enough arrogance and aggression to fill a trading pit. The women (doing business as Protege Corp.) don sexy stewardess outfits to pitch an ad campaign for a jet-leasing company. Their "manager"--advertising executive Donny Deutsch--sounds both appalled and impressed as he says, "You've set the women's movement back 70 years...
...negotiations lasted over a year due to a number of technical difficulties, according to Meyer. The estate, previously owned by the joint venture of Fletcher Challenge Forests Ltd. and China International Trust and Investment Corp., had gone into receivership. It was placed on the market at 1 billion New Zealand Dollars, an amount owed to a syndicate of 12 banks...
...investors when it derailed the government's attempt to sell stakes in two state-owned oil refineries. Undaunted, the government has set a target of raising $2.9 billion by March 31 by selling state-owned assets, including $2.5 billion through the sale of 10% of Oil and Natural Gas Corp., the country's largest refiner...
...necessarily. A food fight has erupted in New England between those who would label their produce as they see fit and those who argue that some of those labels give customers a false impression. Chief among the latter is Monsanto Corp., the agrochemical giant that markets RBST and is fighting a rearguard action to quell consumer resistance to its product...
...lone wolf, Imagen is free to develop its technology at its own pace and in several markets simultaneously. The company's only funding other than the M.I.T. prize and fees from Teradyne has been $100,000 from Alex d'Arbeloff, who until earlier this year was chairman of M.I.T. Corp., which oversees M.I.T...