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...potential stumbling block is, quite simply, GE's size. At some point, skeptics argue, GE will find it nearly impossible to continue its torrid pace of growth. "Ultimately, the law of large numbers will have to win out," William Fiala, an analyst at Edward Jones, wrote in a report on GE that came out last week. He means that to increase sales just 10%, GE will have to find $13 billion in new business this year and $14.3 billion next year. Not surprisingly, Immelt, who sees GE as a collection of smaller pieces with lots of room to grow, doesn...
...first brushes with bigotry, in a fifth novel from the award- winning author of ?The Multicultiboho Show.? It?s 1962, early July, in sizzling, smoldering North Philly - no place for a 12-year-old African-American who happens to prefer Agatha Christie to street fighting. Every summer Edward Massey?s working-class parents, fiercely protective, hustle him out of town and down to Rehoboth Beach, where his Aunt Edna runs a thriving restaurant/boardinghouse. Well, not Rehoboth Beach exactly, Jim Crow being what it was back then, but rather West Rehoboth, that ?coloreds only? country on the other side...
Such were the headline findings of a survey released last week by the American Medical Association. "The majority no longer perceive college binge drinking as a right of passage," declared J. Edward Hill, chair-elect of the AMA. "They see it as a major public health threat." But was there really a time when parents liked knowing their college freshmen were getting shloshed twice a week...
...live in a golden age of biographies about presidents and other public personalities. There's much to be said for these books. I recently read Jean Edward Smith's wonderful new "Grant", and even a pretty good biography of Grover Cleveland...
...saucy nightclub singer in the original Broadway production of Bus Stop; in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her performances in the films Seance on a Wet Afternoon and Frances gained Oscar nominations, but despite critical success, the pressures of balancing family and fame led her to work infrequently. DIED. EDWARD HALL, 77, archaeologist who developed instruments and carbon-dating technology that were used to determine the age of the Shroud of Turin and to prove that the Piltdown man was a hoax; in Oxford, England. DIED. BETTY EVERETT, 61, soul singer whose 1964 recording of The Shoop Shoop Song...