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Like a highly touted rookie who does nothing but strike out once the baseball season begins, genetic-engineering companies are having trouble living up to their early billing. A year ago, they were among the hottest companies on Wall Street. Stock in Genentech, the first of the leading firms to offer its shares to the public, jumped from $35 to $89 during the opening few minutes of trading in October...
Today, the Crimson may finally open its season with a greater Boston League doubleheader at Northeastern. Or, the batsmen may finally open their season with a twin-bill against the Huskies at Soldiers Field. Or, they may not open the season today at all, since the hottest selling item at the Soldiers Field concession stand continues to be mud pies. No one really knows for sure...
...completely different." So says Mel King, manager of Vie de France, a cafe and bakery in Washington, D.C. In city after city and in-suburban shopping malls around the U.S., the croissant, a flaky pastry that has long been a staple at breakfast tables in France, has become the hottest new entrant into the $31 billion-a-year fast-food industry...
...bursting out all over. Not only has the 15-month-old arcade game swallowed up an estimated $1 billion in quarters to become the hottest item in the video-game market, but the little yellow creature is now invading homes and spawning nearly 200 offshoots ranging from jeans to a chart-busting pop song, Pac-Man Fever...
...voice came from the back of a theater auditorium in Long Beach, Calif. It was shouted to the man onstage, who could lay claim to being all those people: minister to the oppressed, political agitator, champion womanizer. The Hollywood moguls may think of Richard Pryor, 41, simply as the hottest black movie star ever. But to millions of his fans, black and white, this self-described nigger is preaching The Word-four-lettered, furious and achingly funny...