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...however soon is distracted from Fritz to a small table a top which stands a beautiful little man a special gift to the children from their father. Soon everybody is admiring the little smiling man feeding him a steady stream of nuts. Fritz though feeds him the largest and hardest nuts which soon break the nutcracker's jaw. Marie is consoled only when her parents allow her to remain alone in the parlor caring for the injured nutcracker...
...expecting retail sales this year of $12.5 billion, up from $10.4 billion in 1983. It will be a "super year by a comfortable margin," says David Leibowitz, a toy-industry analyst for American Securities in New York City. New Jersey-based Toys "R" Us, America's largest seller of playthings (1983 sales: $1.32 billion), expects a sales Increase of about...
Humana (fiscal-year 1984 revenues: $2.6 billion) is the most aggressive of the companies that believe medicine is a calling for businessmen as well as doctors. But though it has 91 hospitals in 22 states and three foreign countries, Humana is not the largest hospital chain. Still bigger, for example, is Hospital Corp. of America (estimated 1984 revenues: $4.2 billion). Last year Humana had profits of $193 million, up from $41 million...
...last year yielded a bumper crop of Academy Award-nominated films-Terms of Endearment, Silkwood and Tender Mercies-boasts a new 20-acre communications complex just west of Dallas that has state-of-the-art production facilities. Moreover, ground has recently been broken for what is billed as the largest sound stage in the world, 22 miles northeast of Houston...
...largest debates for secondary school students in the country, the weighty and the flighty seemed to go hand in hand. The budding politicos stay at the Copley Marriott and commute to Harvard for caucuses and debates for the cause of world peace...