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Julian also own a high-end fashion line andclaims he will be able to find another licenseefor his sportswear, sources said...
...book includes a fascinating chapter on Japan's domination of the computer-chip industry in the 1980s, but it skips over new statistics showing that a South Korean firm is now the leading producer of low-end dram chips, while U.S. firms continue to control the more profitable high-end part of the business. Meanwhile, Japan's computer-hardware industry is in the doldrums and its software firms have yet to make their mark...
This was proved once again at last week's sales. The Christie's sale totaled $12.5 million, less than half its high-end pre-sale estimate of $25.8 million. Of 76 works on offer, 32 failed to sell. Sotheby's guessed that its sale the next night would bring in $31 to $42 million; it actually made $20.4 million. At Sotheby's, 18 of 63 works failed to sell...
...mostly to affluent homeowners and self- described tree huggers -- the save-the-environment folks. That's because buying and installing solar equipment can cost $15,000 for an average-size home before any current starts to flow. "Even Edison first electrified the homes of his wealthy investors, so the high-end client has always been fertile ground," says Steven Strong, whose firm, Solar Design Associates, based in Harvard, Massachusetts, is among the country's leading designers of solar homes...
...wife and business partner Renata, 40, two Utah transplants from Toronto, telecommute from a mountain house and, for about 100 days a year, from the cabin of their 36-ft. Catalina sailboat, the Miss Behaving III, on the Great Salt Lake. A consultant with a contract to distribute high-end data communications systems for Motorola's Codex Corp., Janus says that "the boat's especially nice during the heavy winter snows. Or if there's a great sunset on a Sunday evening, I can just stay on board until Monday morning." It is also as useful as the golf course...