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...Oldsmobile, have begun to feel the pinch as the companies seek to cut marketing and advertising costs by focusing on brands with a more youthful image. Oldsmobile, with sagging sales throughout the decade despite many attempts at a spruce-up, reportedly remains within earshot of the GM scrap heap, and Ford's recent acquisitions of Volvo and Jaguar could threaten the longevity of Mercury...
...Torre, manager of the defending champion New York Yankees, has had to overcome bad teams, impossible owners and, earlier this year, a life-threatening illness to stay atop the baseball heap. Last week he had to deal with TIME's JOEL STEIN before taking on the Atlanta Braves...
This time, though, there is no doll inside. In its place, you find a heap of warm, pulsating goo. You stare...
...Asia's fastest-growing economies. Working with about 100 recycling companies belonging to her cooperative, she coordinates efforts to collect industrial and consumer trash, salvage everything, from paper and plastic to scrap steel, and mold the refuse into raw materials to feed Taiwan's factories. Out of that garbage heap comes treasure. Last year the co-op brought in more than $100 million from customers like China Steel and Formosa Plastics. But money is not the motivation behind Wu's not-for-profit outfit. After paying office charges and the modest salaries of Wu and her staff of seven, recycling...
...advance of religion in the schools is a silent march, much like a termite invasion that slowly and secretly munches through the walls and floors until the whole building collapses in a heap to everyone's surprise and dismay...