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Consulting: Sterling Management Systems, formed in 1983, has been ranked in recent years by Inc. magazine as one of America's fastest-growing private companies (estimated 1988 revenues: $20 million). Sterling regularly mails a free newsletter to more than 300,000 health-care professionals, mostly dentists, promising to increase their incomes dramatically. The firm offers seminars and courses that typically cost $10,000. But Sterling's true aim is to hook customers for Scientology. "The church has a rotten product, so they package it as something else," says Peter Georgiades, a Pittsburgh attorney who represents Sterling victims...
...crowds rushing to buy the book were bigger than anyone could have anticipated. In one day the entire first printing of 600,000 had been shipped; by week's end 925,000 copies were in print. Said Simon & Schuster publisher Jack McKeown: "Booksellers are telling us it's the fastest-selling book they've ever experienced." Enthused Matthew Goldberg, merchandise manager for the Doubleday chain: "It's not only hot, it's supernova...
...people were riding bikes it would help the world," says Sowers. "It would help environmentally, politically, the list goes on--and there's no question that the bike is the fastest way to get around in the city...
...opulent London office on March 14, 1990, could have signaled a routine meeting of bank directors and officers. The occasion turned out instead to be the darkest day in the high-flying private bank's 18-year history. Key officials received the startling news that the world's fastest-growing international bank, no longer headed by its financial genius founder, was in deep trouble. Hundreds of millions of dollars was missing from its capital accounts, and hundreds of millions more consisted of loans granted to insiders to buy stock in Agha Hasan Abedi's banks. Such loans were never meant...
...burst out of the blocks for a commanding lead on the first leg but Princeton's stars, Nelson Diebel and Ty Nelson, overtook the Crimson in the next two legs of the breaststroke and the butterfly. Harvard's Wagner tried to pull it out for the Crimson with the fastest anchor leg of the event, but the Harvard team fell short by nearly half a second...