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While a scrap of paper is typically used to jot down a phone number or spit out a piece of chewing gum, it may soon be used to diagnose illnesses like HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis...
...hoping that once they had enough money (between $8 million and $10 million, she figured), Buffett would cut back on work and finally pay attention to his family. What she didn't realize was that the mission Buffett had embarked upon when he was 6 years old and selling gum and Coke to his neighbors would never stop. The quest to amass wealth - but not to spend it, as his license plate, THRIFTY, suggested - would take him all the way to being the richest man in the world...
...line of resignation; no catastrophe laid on Turk can surprise or disappoint him. Maybe De Niro has kept his physical instrument in shape all these years by husbanding his gestures. But Pacino has been a perpetual motion machine. In this movie he still is: dancing like a boxer, chewing gum, his feet banging out a nervous paradiddle. Eventually, gravity takes its revenge. In remorseless closeup, and beneath his strangely youthful hairdo, he reveals the forehead furrows, a murder of crowlines, bags like backpacks under his eyes. He and De Niro are men whose faces I've watched and studied more...
...only the second person outside the Cadbury family to run the shop. Stitzer is predicting that yet another restructuring--the company plans to close 15% of its factories and ax 15% of its workers in the next four years--will allow Cadbury's chocolate, candy and chewing-gum business to deliver annual sales increases of 4% to 6% and profit margins in the midteens by 2011 from its current level of around...
...Slowly and deliberately, he brought them along. "You take your support base along with you," says Ramaphosa, who was secretary-general of the ANC and is now a business mogul. "Once you arrive at the beachhead, then you allow the people to move on. He's not a bubble-gum leader - chew it now and throw it away...