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...business is doing anything but schussing these days. Equipment sales have been logy, in part because of last year's snow drought in Europe. A company would need a lot of nerve to launch a pricey new board right now, but France's Salomon is plunging ahead with a ski that the trade magazine Snow Country called the "most talked-about product to hit the ski market since the plastic boot." A leading manufacturer of ski boots and bindings, Salomon spent six years and $40 million developing its first ski ever. The result is the S9000 Equipe, a superfast, lightweight...
This is the world Neil Bush walked into when he went looking for financial backing to launch his own energy venture in the early 1980s. His benefactors saw him coming. After working for a couple of years pursuing oil and natural- gas leases for Amoco Production Corp., the 26-year-old Bush decided he was ready for bigger things. Neil and his wife Sharon were welcomed as a winsome couple in Denver's highly stratified social set. Sharon volunteered to help at Children's Hospital, Denver's most chic charity. She sold cookies through Cookie Express, a mini-business...
Bush had lunch in 1982 with millionaire developer Walters, the major stockholder in Cherry Creek National Bank, to discuss financial backing for JNB, which Bush planned to launch with partners James Judd and Evan Nash. Walters quickly made $300,000 available to Bush to open JNB in January 1983. This enabled Bush to draw a more satisfying salary of $60,000 and provided generous operating expenses...
...attacking Israel. U.S. analysts have already detected the movement of missiles toward areas of western Iraq from which they could hit Jerusalem and Tel Aviv in five minutes. Americans fear that Iraq could launch a salvo of 50 to 60 missiles, accompanied by an aircraft attack. Saddam, they say, would try to make it appear that the U.S. and Israel had provoked the attack, possibly by having an Iraqi aircraft drop a bomb on Baghdad...
...reminiscences taped after he was ousted in 1964 but withheld by his family for years to prevent reprisals, the late Soviet ruler sheds startling light on how Stalin set the stage for the bloody purges of the 1930s, a wartime overture to Hitler and Castro's bid to launch nuclear missiles against...