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Creative Memories, based in St. Cloud, Minn., trains consultants in scrapbooking techniques. It certified 49,000 last year, a fourfold increase over 1996. These consultants then teach at "crop parties" (named after the cropping, or trimming, of photos) where they peddle the products of Creative Memories. There is even a place called the Scrap & Spa in Union Pier, Mich., on the shore of Lake Michigan, that offers a weekend of massages, pedicures and scrapbooking for $215. It's booked solid through November...
...found important new techniques in picture-making and story-telling ... It is not afraid to say the same thing twice if twice-telling reveals a fourfold truth ... It is a work of art created by grown people for grown people...
...management suited to the task at hand? "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap drove Sunbeam's stock up fourfold last year by doing what he had done so well at Scott Paper and other firms: slashing costs. But Sunbeam's share price collapsed when he tried to push the business's growth. Two weeks ago, when CBS tapped Mel Karmazin to be CEO, replacing Michael H. Jordan, CBS stock jumped. But it wasn't so much a bet on Karmazin as a sigh of relief that Jordan was leaving. Under Jordan, CBS has run last among the big networks. But can Karmazin...
According to Center officials, the project's strategy is fourfold, focusing on islet transplantation, tolerance induction, autoimmunity and expansion of islet cell supply...
...models.) Real-world users of technology shouldn't fear that the ship is sinking. It's not. But for now tech stocks are, and investors may not get whole for a while. It's worth noting, though, that even with its recent 30% decline, Intel's shares are up fourfold in three years. Tech stocks, on average, have risen about twice as fast as the Dow Jones industrial average since June 1994. That pace was unsustainable no matter how much Grove and company may change the world...