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...difficulty. Only ten years ago, for example, Toys "R" Us, then called Interstate Stores, was wallowing in bankruptcy proceedings, and its stock was selling for as low as 12.5 cents. Today a share of the resurgent toy-store chain goes for more than $38, a 300- fold increase. Windfalls can also be made from convalescing companies like LTV, the giant steel firm that is still reorganizing under Chapter 11 protection but has made strides toward renewed profitability. This year the price of LTV bonds maturing in 2003 has nearly tripled, from 11% of face value...
...creative process." And despite last week's setback, the Gap remains one of the most profitable chains in the country. "I see some hopeful developments for 1988," says Loeb. "You do sometimes have a season that is wrong, but that doesn't mean the company is going to fold." That should console Chairman Fisher. In the past month the value of the 9.5 million Gap shares that he and his wife own fell by close to $360 million. That is quite a gap to fill...
...should keep in mind that Exeter classmates and football buddies have feelings, too, and to suddenly spend less than 100 percent of one's free time with them is liable to cause misunderstandings and hurt feelings. And imagine how embarassed one would be to come shamefacedly back into the fold after having caught a lethal venereal disease from a "friendly" stranger...
...AIDS, even Bond must bend to serial monogamy; this time, for reasons of plot and propriety, he's a one-gal guy. Dalton performed a lot of his own stunts, and he looks great in a tuxedo -- especially the one with the Velcro lapels that fold over to give him the guise of a priest-assassin...
...product was an $18,000 Unimate machine used by General Motors to load forged dies at a New Jersey auto-assembly plant. As recently as 1981, Unimation made 45% of all robots sold in the U.S. Another setback for robotics will take place next month, when GE plans to fold its $4 million robotmaking plant in Plymouth, Fla., idling 118 workers...