Word: highs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taxes to graft. And for those who have no access to dollars, despair--and resentment--is rising. At the same time, Cubans are worried that turning capitalist too quickly could invite the kind of abuses that have devastated Russia's economy. "We want the embargo to end," says a high-ranking Cuban official, "but we're afraid of it happening." The big difference now is that, increasingly, Americans no longer...
...Tokyo exchange, has soared. The company's market capitalization is a stunning $79 billion, which puts it ahead of Sony. Softbank has also landed in Europe, establishing joint ventures with Vivendi in France and News Corp. in Britain. Rupert Murdoch is one of Son's growing legion of high-flying fans...
...particularly Koreans), Son has fought the battles of an outsider all his life. He bore the boyhood name-calling stoically and tried to toughen himself physically by inserting weights in his shoes to strengthen his legs (the better to play soccer). He left for the U.S. when still in high school, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with an economics degree and, upon his return to Japan, insisted on using his Korean surname, Son, instead of Yasumoto, the Japanese name his parents had taken...
...question is whether an impulsive entrepreneur like Son can actually manage this empire. Softbank's U.S. chief executive, Ron Fisher, is struggling to staff the U.S.-based venture business, hiring analysts, consultants and even a public relations staff. But some of its clients complain that unless they fly as high as Yahoo, they don't get enough attention. "We are not at the stage we want to be," admits Fisher...
...seven-year-old boy in Cahokia, Ill., is suspended for having a nail clipper at school. A 10th-grader at Surry County High School in Virginia is booted for having blue-dyed hair. A Minnesota high school nixes a yearbook photo of an Army enlistee in the senior class because it shows her sitting atop a cannon outside a Veterans of Foreign Wars post...