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...firm, Pernod Ricard. (That company also said last week that it was making a $10 billion pitch, along with Fortune Brands, for the England-based Allied Domecq.) The only loser might be Coca-Cola: If you spend that much on rum, do you really want to dilute it? - By Jim Ledbetter...
...ubiquitous TV ads featured a crusty Perdue uttering the slogan "It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken," and sales took wing, from $56 million in 1970 to more than $1.2 billion in 1991, when he turned over daily operations of the company to his son Jim...
JULES AND JIM...
Although set in the '20s, this is the '60s film par excellence. Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) both love the free-spirited Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), who bunks with each of them. Unofficially remade dozens of times (most recently by Bernardo Bertolucci as The Dreamers), François Truffaut's 1962 valentine to not-so-free love explored the geometry of the romantic triangle with a scientist's precision and a poet's wisdom. The confusions of love never seemed so radiant...
Sometimes, living by your principles is a difficult thing to do. Last month Pax World Funds, a socially responsible investing outfit, sold 375,000 shares of Starbucks, worth some $23.4 million, because the java chain started selling coffee liqueur with spirits firm Jim Beam--and Pax won't invest in companies that make liquor. "We were very reluctant to do this," says Anita Green, Pax's vice president for social research. "There's a lot we like about this company." In fact, Starbucks has been lauded--by Pax and others--for its progressive environmental policies, its commitment to sell Fair...