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...venerable Times and Sunday Times in London and the well-respected Australian, and he is part owner of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. While he has sold the New York Post and the Chicago Sun-Times, he still owns the Boston Herald and the San Antonio Express-News. He has interests in ten book publishers, including Glasgow's William Collins & Sons and New York City's Harper & Row. His 20th Century Fox movie studio and six independent TV stations in the U.S. have served as the launching pad for his new Fox Television network. In Europe...
Even if Transrapid is not awarded the casino-express contract, maglev technology is already on its way to the U.S. Magnetic Transit of America, a subsidiary of West Germany's Daimler-Benz, broke ground in downtown Las Vegas last January for a slower-speed -- 50 m.p.h. -- maglev urban-transit system. Completion of the initial 1.3-mile segment of the Las Vegas People Mover is planned for 1991 -- perhaps a good year for dating the beginning of the maglev...
...father about Pressy's sports adventures, but "all he wanted to know was, Is he toeing the mark?" The most revealing thing George has ever said about his father occurs in the letter he wrote to Hynes, where he compares his own father with Hynes' for being unable to express love. Bush, 6 ft. 2 in., would never consider his own feats the equal of his father's -- who was 6 ft. 4 in., of commanding presence and with a record in wartime, at Yale, and in Washington that seemed to transcend criticism. The utter probity of his father...
Though researchers express surprise that more women are not buying condoms for protection, some women are concerned that responsibility for contraception and disease prevention is increasingly falling to them alone. "Let men take their half of the responsibility," says Janet Weintraub, 30, a New York City lawyer. Even so, as the epidemic spread of sexual diseases continues, more and more women are acknowledging that the only certain way to know that protection will be available when desired is to provide it themselves. Says Lisa Baroni, a 20-year-old college student: "Better for a woman to have a condom...
...better chance of dominating global finance than Nomura. The company, building on a powerful domestic base, is a behemoth. Its assets ($372 billion) surpass those of Citicorp ($204 billion) and Merrill Lynch ($55 billion) combined. Nomura's 1987 profits ($2 billion) were almost four times those of American Express. And as Japan converts manufacturing muscle into financial might, the securities giant has passed Toyota (1987 earnings: $1.7 billion) to become the country's most profitable company. No wonder Nomura sparks respect in its competitors, inspires hard work and ambition among its 12,000 employees, and commands the loyalty...