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...smartest shop in the business right now is Rhode Island-based Hasbro, which this year expects to reach sales of $1.2 billion and surpass Mattel as the largest U.S. toymaker. Hasbro, which is now operated by its third generation of Hassenfeld brothers, has profited from a somewhat contrary attitude. The company avoided getting into video games in 1979, which at the time prompted wags to call it "Has-been." Instead, the company plunged / deeper into conventional toys, which eventually produced such smash hits as Transformers and My Little Pony, a line of plastic, pastel-colored toys...
...crimes and served five years in jail before his death in 1972. Last week Flick, 58, announced that he will sell his company to Deutsche Bank. "The decision has been difficult for me," he said. The sale price was estimated to be about $2 billion, which makes it the largest takeover in West German history. Deutsche Bank immediately announced that it will offer shares of the company to the public next year...
...Warming to his theme of "the mutual danger of protectionism," he noted that U.S.-Canada trade last year totaled nearly $150 billion, the largest volume between any two nations in the world. One of three Canadian jobs depends on exports, he noted, and the U.S. buys three-quarters of his country's exports. "The imperative for Canada is not just more multilateral arrangements," said Mulroney, "but stability in our bilateral trade relationship with the U.S. We want more secure access to (the U.S.) market, while recognizing that the removal of barriers opens trade in both directions...
Bishop Berkeley's 18th century dictum "Westward the course of empire takes its way" was borne out again last week by a Commerce Department analysis of urban demographic trends. The department forecast that by the year 2000, Los Angeles will surpass New York as the nation's largest metropolitan area, and that San Francisco will overtake Bridgeport, Conn., as the country's wealthiest. Los Angeles, which by 1982 had swept past Chicago to gain Second City status, is expected to swell to 8,870,000 regional residents. The San Francisco area will drop from 27th to 28th in population, with...
...suburban apartment and his son held hostage while Bertoux was taken to the Brink's complex. Once inside, the gunmen managed to overpower four other guards and force Guerrero and Bertoux to help open the safe. The take, an estimated $9.5 million in cash and valuables, was the largest theft of its kind in France since 1980, when burglars took $10.5 million from the Cannes home of Prince Abdel Aziz bin Ahmed al Thani of Qatar...