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...franchise that had largely lain dormant since the mid-'80s. Indeed, Lucasfilm had pretty much stopped licensing Star Wars merchandise, although that quickly turned around: since 1991, hundreds of new Star Wars products have entered the market, from the usual action figures and trading cards to video games and high-end items like lithographs based on original production art or a 6-ft.-tall storm trooper ("made of pristine fiber glass" and available for only $4,995). As Star Wars Insider, an official fan-club publication, puts it: "There is more nifty stuff to buy [than ever before] if that...
...California, courts have begun putting value on the social trappings of a high-end marriage: the A-list party invitations and the good table at Spago. Given what awaits a 53-year-old divorce in Stamford who may be lucky to be invited to a potluck supper with Scrabble, Gary Wendt's decision to spin off Lorna after 31 years should get her half and then some...
...president Paul Marciano--one of four immigrant French brothers who founded the company in 1981--claims the job exports have nothing to do with the UNITE campaign. In the early 1990s, charging $60 to $70 per pair, Guess was the top designer-jeans merchant. In the past two years, high-end labels such as Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren--many of them manufactured abroad--moved aggressively into denim, pricing their jeans at $48. Guess sales plunged, and Marciano says he had to cut labor costs. "If you don't stay competitive, they will kick...
...needed to make this Jetsons vision real, from cruise control to automatic suspension and antilock brakes, from vehicle-detection radar to dashboard navigation systems, already resides in industry catalogs. GM, for instance, is offering limited radar-based obstacle-detection systems in school buses. GM and Ford now equip their high-end cars with devices that call for emergency help after a crash. And some 4% of all new vehicles are expected to come equipped with onboard navigation systems that can tell drivers where they are by reading an onboard electronic map or the signals from a global positioning satellite system...
...significant technical objective (and the most expensive at $1.5 million) is providing every member of the Faculty and administrative staff with a networked computer by next June. Other spending proposed includes $1.1 million for computer support staff (without whom many would find it difficult to network); $150,000 for high-end work stations; $50,000 for high-quality projection equipment; $100,000-$350,000 for '100 percenting' river houses for the ethernet; $100,000 for renovation of a house computer room; and $160,000 for the renovation of the Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services offices...