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...retailer Gateway 2000? Waitt, 34, the son of a fourth-generation cattle broker, has just walked away from a monumental deal with Compaq Computer that would have left him with a personal fortune of more than $3 billion. No, he did not get kicked in the head by a cow...
...last month Pfeiffer figured he had reeled in one of the computer industry's prize catches in Gateway, the iconoclastic Sioux City outfit whose packaging bears the black-and-white markings of a cow's hide but whose burgeoning revenues are 100% filet mignon. Few know or even suspect just how close Pfeiffer came. The contracts were ready, and Waitt had the proverbial pen in hand before he evidently had a cathartic flash and rejected a nearly $7 billion takeover by Compaq. Gateway's current market value is $4.8 billion...
...very expensive element of military planning that Thompson says is a sure bet to survive is the doctrine requiring the armed forces to be ready to fight and win two separate regional wars at once. "It's been somewhat watered down," he said, "but remains something of a sacred cow...
With the primary looming in September 1998, rumors of who will be running are buzzing around the state like flies around a cow. Harshbarger is already out on the campaign trail. On a Thursday evening earlier this month, Harshbarger was at the Continental making his case for the state's highest office...
...most unusual concept yet for a White House movie--one imagines, anyway--belongs to Sacred Cows, a notorious and as yet unproduced screenplay by Joe Eszterhas, who is most famous for writing Basic Instinct and Showgirls. Sacred Cows, which is being developed by MGM, tells the story of a President who is caught having a trans-species tryst in a barn. At various times, according to Eszterhas, Steven Spielberg, Milos Forman and Robert Zemeckis have all been attached to the film as directors. "It's a comedic but serious piece," Eszterhas says. "It ultimately makes the case that the President...