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...late '90s, Peterman's expansion plans got out of control. His catalogs bulged with more than 100 pages--up from an initial seven a decade earlier. He added 10 J. Peterman stores in 1998. His five-year business plan called for 70 by 2002, the buildup topped with an IPO. "I took my eye off the brand focus and put it on rapid retail expansion," he recalls. "That was my mistake...
Herb Kelleher, founder of Southwest Airlines, considered Neeleman such a threat that after buying him out, he forced his young rival to sign a five-year noncompete agreement in 1994. "David's a genius," Kelleher says of Neeleman. "There's no question about it." The hiatus gave Neeleman a lot of time to plan every last detail of his dream airline...
...This Monday, Gamba Osaka's star midfielder Junichi Inamoto, 21, will join English Premier League giants Arsenal in a five-year deal worth a reported $3 million. Last week, Bolton Wanderers, another Premier League side, took Cerezo Osaka's Akinori Nishizawa, 25, on a 10-month loan. Across the North Sea, Urawa Reds midfielder Shinji Ono, 21, signed a reported $4 million deal with first division Dutch side Feyenoord. In Italy, A.C. Parma paid league champions A.S. Roma a cool $26 million for the services of superstar Hidetoshi Nakata; the 24-year-old playmaker, now firmly established in Italian football...
...most reports, that?s just fine with Armstrong, who will mark the five-year anniversary of his diagnosis this fall. He has said repeatedly he?d rather have the press talking about his triumph over advanced testicular cancer than about his cycling victories, adding that he considers himself a cancer survivor first, and a Tour champion second. That hasn?t kept sportswriters and die-hard cycling fans from bemoaning the American public?s blas? take on Armstrong?s accomplishments. Even this summer, after Lance stunned his competition by shredding the Tour?s two toughest climbing stages, L?Alpe D?Huez...
...markets to recover, unless you have absolutely no faith in a company's fundamentals?or there is a ".com" in its name. If you're feeling adventurous, this might actually be a good time to buy. Most of Asia's stock markets are trading close to their five-year lows in terms of price-to-earning ratios...