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...Clinton and George Bush use it, as do many golf-tour professionals -- even those without endorsement contracts. Bertha's manufacturer, meanwhile, has doubled sales of all its products four years running, topping $132 million last year, with profits tripling to $19.3 million. FORTUNE now rates Callaway as the 14th fastest-growing company...
...with Diners Club, at 15% less pay. "The determining factor in staying was looking at the economy of California and the economy of Colorado -- they seemed to be heading in opposite directions," he says, standing in back of his brick house in Highlands Ranch, Denver's fastest-growing suburb, in full view of the Front Range that marks the east wall of the Rockies. "I look back on this a lot and wonder if we did the right thing. But when we're out for a walk watching the mountains at sunset, I know I definitely made the right decision...
...legislative machinery, this one is not expected by criminologists to have a stunning effect on crime. Though most Americans support capital punishment (77% in the TIME/CNN poll), * many crime experts challenge its usefulness for anything other than pure retribution. The problem, they argue, is that the fastest growth in violent crime is occurring among teenagers -- from 1986 to 1991, murders committed by teens ages 14 to 17 grew by 124%, while among adults 25 and over, murder actually declined slightly -- and teenagers are least likely to be concerned with the threat of the electric chair. "Many of them face death...
...best of times in the personal-computer market. Prices are in free fall. Options that were once prohibitively expensive are now packaged at rock- bottom prices. The fastest chips and the biggest hard drives are cheap and plentiful. For consumers who have often had to wait years to buy the latest, most powerful machines at affordable prices, the market has entered what seems to be a golden...
...nonbank lenders. "There is plenty of demand for financing from small companies," says Access Capital president Miles Stuchin. "It's just that the banks are turning them down." Stuchin set up a finance company in 1986 that Inc. magazine last year placed in the top 20% of the 500 fastest-growing companies...