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...short term, these megacompanies face a period of adjustment. Flextronics, for one, will have to digest its gut-busting acquisitions. Says Merrill Lynch analyst Jerry Labowitz: "It's a real challenge for any company growing at an extraordinary rate to do three dozen acquisitions in less than 15 months, especially when many of them are in new areas for the company." In the meantime, the big EMS players must also adjust to the economic woes of their customers. In a speech last month, Marks predicted that the telecom industry is "going to get a lot nastier, with...
Sibley's book will introduce more people to birds; more bird watchers will lead to more individual initiative, and the birds will be the beneficiaries. ANDY THOMPSON, PUBLISHER Bird Watcher's Digest Marietta, Ohio...
DIED. J.C. FURNAS, 95, prolific writer, biographer and historian of American society; in Stanton, N.J. His most famous article, "...And Sudden Death," examined automobile deaths and driving safety. Reader's Digest reprinted 8 million copies, and it helped prompt safer highway and auto designs...
...spent almost $200 million restoring its elegance as they have brought it up to date. Perhaps the most spectacular project so far is a just-opened $40 million, 40,000-sq.-ft. spa. Its theme is consistent with the style that distinguishes the entire property and moved Architectural Digest to judge Grove Park "one of the most important and most well-preserved vestiges of the Arts and Crafts movement." Built from huge boulders so that only unfinished rock face is exposed on the outside, the 510-room hotel is also filled with Roycrofters furniture and hammered copper lighting fixtures...
Part of the problem for very young children is that drinking too much juice can lead to chronic diarrhea. Their intestines just aren't ready yet to digest quite so much sugar. Also, juice doesn't fill you up the way solid foods do, making it easier to consume extra calories--and contributing to excessive weight gain later...