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These transmutants are so compellingly keen that Kiernan Rancilio, for one, forgot about playing with the motorized fire truck he received for his sixth birthday when he unwrapped his GoBots. "I felt so good when I saw them," says the Detroit youngster. "I carry them around everywhere...
Nestlé has long had a keen appetite for U.S. companies. In a buying binge during the '70s, the Swiss food conglomerate helped itself to Beech-Nut (baby foods), Libby, McNeill & Libby (fruit juices) and Stouffer (hotels and frozen dinners). But Nestlé then decided to halt its U.S. expansion because of heavy financial losses suffered in Argentina...
...priest who also serves as Minister of Culture in Nicaragua's Marxist government, knelt to receive the Pope's blessing, John Paul wagged his finger in Cardenal's face and chided him, "You must straighten out your position with the church." These episodes, and his own keen observations during an eight-day-long visit to Central America, made a lasting impression on the Pontiff. He returned to Rome convinced that the time had come to deal firmly with the increasing conflict between the church and radical priests and nuns in Latin America, and indeed in the Third...
American businessmen sometimes think of Japan as the cradle of modern manufacturing innovation and efficiency, but competition in Japan is keen and failure is common. Last week Japan's Riccar went bankrupt the old-fashioned way. They earned it. This was the fourth-largest bankruptcy in Japan since World...
...time and scant money, it transformed a scattered, dowdy assortment of obsolete and makeshift facilities into a unified, colorful and festive setting for the Los Angeles Games. And all without major investment in new buildings. "Even the simplest new structures would have cost at least $500 million," says Ed Keen, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee's construction boss. "We couldn't afford such white elephants. So we decided to adapt 26 old athletic facilities-some left over from the 1932 Olympiad-and decorate them to give them a unified look...