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...Petula," 1968: The sponsors, Chrysler Motor Corp., try unsuccessfully to quash a shocking sequence in this Petula Clark special. In the sequence, Petula's white hand rests momentarily on the black arm of Guest Star Harry Belafonte...
...California congressional delegation, Democratic and Republican, says the market now is anything but free. It is being manipulated, in their view, by energy companies that have wrung billions out of California consumers by squeezing supply to create artificial shortages. Why else, they say, would California power suppliers like Enron Corp.--a Houston-based trading giant headed by one of Bush's top donors and informal energy advisers--be seeing their revenues jump 281% in the first quarter? Even a respected free-marketeer like Alfred Kahn, the father of airline deregulation, has had enough. "The notion that caps automatically interfere with...
Last year, as Warnaco's share of intimate apparel fell before the likes of Intimate Brands (Victoria's Secret), Banana Republic, VF Corp. (Vanity Fair) and Sara Lee (Playtex, Wonderbra), the company lost $338 million. Trading in Warnaco's stock, which reached $44 in 1998, was suspended last week after it tumbled to 39[cents] a share; Wachner resigned from the board of the New York Stock Exchange. Her personal stake in the company has plunged from around $200 million to $1.8 million...
...used to, anyway. Tuesday, American Greetings Corp., one of the nation's largest card companies, posted a net loss of $80 million, or 15 percent, for the quarter ending May 31st. The card giant blames its downturn on the success of low-cost competition, like cut-rate brands, e-cards and new web sites that will sign and send personalized cards to anyone you choose...
...Recently, anti-globalization maestro José Bové has adopted Astérix's moustache along with his approach to foreign policy - with U.S. multinationals taking the place of the Roman army. That comic-book reading of 21st century economics prevailed last month in southern France, when Robert Mondavi Corp. abandoned plans to produce wine in the village of Aniane in the face of bitter local opposition. By driving out the invader, though, the villagers seem to have harmed no one more than themselves...