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...they eat, they breed, they fly. But they do it for a lot longer. Fruit flies in Rose's colony may survive for up to 140 days. In the absence of predators, fruit flies in the wild get just 70. A person with this kind of longevity would easily exceed 150 years...
...mission is child's play, creating a toy or game that sells is not: the process generally takes a couple of years and requires big up-front costs. Toy manufacturers pray for a product's sales to double after the launch of TV ads and for demand to exceed supply temporarily...
...mortgage providers like GE Capital, Norwest Financial, KeyCorp, NationsBank and Chase Manhattan, not to mention heavily advertised smaller outfits like the Money Store (Dial 1-800-LOAN-YES). The total for sub-prime mortgages--a figure that is growing at twice the rate of conventional mortgages--is expected to exceed $120 billion this year. Another blistering market: sub-prime cash for new and used cars. Ford Motor Co.'s Associates Corp.; Mercury Finance, based in Lake Forest, Illinois; Credit Acceptance Corp. of Southfield, Michigan; and other lenders this year will provide at least $70 billion to put people with dented...
...principal reason seems to rest on precedent. The Fagles translation of Homer's Iliad, published by Viking in 1990 to considerably less hubbub than that heralding the upcoming Odyssey, went on to exceed all commercial expectations by selling 22,000 copies in hardback; the paperback version, now in its eighth printing, has moved 140,000 copies. And an abridged audiotape of the Iliad read by Derek Jacobi surprised Penguin Audiobooks by selling 35,000 copies...
...there's more. Powerful constituents can also exceed the per-candidate spending limits through a type of earmarking called "tallying," which routes their big checks to the party and then back to their candidate of choice. The Washington Post found memos from the campaign of Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, that openly asked donors to tally their extra contributions to benefit his campaign. One letter from Levin soliciting a tallied contribution from the Chrysler Corp.'s PAC in 1995 called it "crucial to my re-election effort next year...