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...numbers say so. Both sales and rentals of tuxedoes have split the seams since 1981. The American Formalwear Association reports that sales, which were at $65 million in 1981, hit $100 million in 1985. The Chicago-based Gingiss International, the nation's largest formal-wear rental chain, did $500 million in tuxedo rentals last year, up 50% from 1981. At New York City's Waldorf- Astoria, 60% of last year's banqueters showed up in formal gear, up from 45% in 1981. That means, according to the hotel, that 195,000 folks showed up at the Waldorf...
...soft-drink supremacy. Coke intends to sell to the public 51% of the stock in Coca-Cola Enterprises, a mammoth group (estimated 1986 revenues: $3.2 billion) of bottling and canning operations that have been spun off from the parent company. This initial stock offering, which will be the largest in U.S. history, will raise up to $1.7 billion...
...three: NEC, Hitachi and Toshiba) that can afford to lose money temporarily on semiconductors because they can rely on other revenue to tide them over. In contrast, U.S. chipmakers tend to be specialized, entrepreneurial companies that are more sensitive to profit slumps. An exception is IBM, the world's largest semiconductor maker, but the computer giant sells none of its chips separately because it uses the entire output in its own products...
...South Africa only if they are providers of food or medical supplies. Other similar social-investment firms include New Alternatives in Great Neck, N.Y., and the Bethesda, Md.-based Calvert Group, which offers both stock-and-bond and money-market funds. New York City's Dreyfus, one of the largest and most diversified of the general mutual-fund companies, operates a social-investment fund called Third Century, in addition to other standard portfolios...
Assets of the six largest social-investment funds have grown from $102 million in 1982 to $450 million this year, while the ranks of their investors have swelled from 22,000 to 66,000. The assets of the Pax World Fund, for example, climbed during that period from $7 million to $50.2 million, and the Calvert funds grew from $2.5 million to $146 million...