Word: disasterous
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The words in the headlines seemed vaguely familiar: OPEC meeting, oil output curtailed, prices rising. But if you are having haunting visions of long lines and $2.50-per-gal. gasoline, relax. When representatives of oil-producing countries meet in Vienna this week, they will try to avert the disaster that...
Too bad about Titanic--so many Oscars, so few ways to exploit them. No sequel, no spin-offs, no further books, no cologne. Still, there might be one product that could make it. With Jack and Rose doing all that running, swimming, wading and climbing, why not The Titanic Workout...
That portrait is real, all right, in places like Nigeria, Somalia, Burundi, Sudan, Kenya. But it is no longer the whole picture. Academics, diplomats and bankers who do business there talk seriously these days about an African renaissance. A grand word, it turns out, for the slow, fragile, difficult changes...
But since then Nike has been shooting bricks. Sales dropped 8% in the company's third quarter, and footwear sales in the U.S. were down 18%. Orders for spring are off too. Inventories ballooned as customers shunned boring products with high prices. And because Nike cranks out an entirely new...
It's not a new provision, but victims of natural disasters (El Nino victims, listen up!) are eligible for special tax relief. They can deduct losses incurred in '98 on their '97 return. To do so, they must be in a federally declared disaster area. The move fast-forwards your...