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...HIGH FINANCE $4 billion Estimated amount the leveraged-buyout firm Blackstone Group will raise by taking 10% of its stock public later this month $2.33 billion Estimated amount the company's two co-founders will earn by selling some of their shares in the initial public offering...
...Mint has a catalog that reads like a Who's Who of scale-model celebrity, from Marilyn Monroe to Jackie Onassis. Lady Di - at $195 a doll - outsells them all. A private company, the Franklin Mint won't say how many of the dolls it has sold. (The U.S. firm had a long legal battle, now settled, with the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund over rights to use the princess's image...
...health-care companies that happen to make cars,'" says Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. As it happens, Wyden has put an elegant and entirely radical health-care plan on the table. According to an independent assessment by the Lewin Group, a nonpartisan health-care consulting firm, it would save $1.48 trillion over the next 10 years...
...what a state income tax would levy. What's more, the relatively low salaries and wages in Florida's tourism-driven economy "are hardly commensurate with those of the states we're being compared with today, like California and New York," says Cancela, who heads the Miami-based marketing firm Hispanic USA. That growing gap between incomes and housing prices has all but wiped away Florida's historical luster as a paradise for new homebuyers...
...Still, Sessions, for one, remained firm in his opposition. He replied to Bush's ribbing, saying "it's unusual that we disagree because I've been closer to him than Barney the dog... It was a healthy exchange and it's much less likely that we'd have hard feelings and personal animosity," Sessions said. "But nothing was said to change my fundamental concerns about the bill...