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When NASA head Daniel Goldin declared earlier this year that the U.S. rocketry program is inferior to those of European competitors, he was only stating the obvious. True, the U.S. launches real astronauts and not just satellite payloads. But dismayed by delays, cost overruns and the Challenger disaster, paying clients began to go elsewhere. The shuttle's $80 million-per-launch cost prompted California Congressman Dana Rohrbacher to quip that it is "the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills...
They might, if the folks with the wherewithal to fund Lockheed's venture are convinced they'll get a return on that investment. Without government guarantees, the private sector may not be willing to put up the $4 billion to $8 billion needed to launch the VentureStar. If it doesn't, the Europeans could inherit the space-launch business. Permanently...
...that superficial? Do we really care so much about how we look? We certainly do. I need not launch another campaign against Calvin Klein to make the point that thinness is in. Whether we like it or not, in this country, a weight craze is increasingly widespread. While each gender is undoubtedly affected differently, this article does not seek to examine the sexism pervading the issue of weight and physique. Societal chauvinism is inevitable and such a discussion would require at the very least its own editorial. But in the U.S., maintaining a low weight is not merely a social...
...capitalized [paid for] in 120 days." Making shrewd use of capital is Bollenbach's forte. In 1993 he fashioned an elegant solution to quite a different problem: saving Marriott Corp. from collapsing in debt by splitting it into two companies. In 1989, as CFO of Holiday Corp., he helped launch a subsidiary that is now the Promus Hotel Corp. (Hampton Inn, Embassy Suites), in the process selling off Holiday Inns to Bass PLC for an outrageous amount of money. He also rescued casino-hotel mogul Donald Trump from ruin. Trump was personally on the hook for $650 million before Bollenbach...
...keep it that low, and what will happen to the body with that kind of treatment?" There's the real possibility that the therapy will prove too toxic to continue for very long. Or that HIV may find hiding places in the body from which it can eventually launch devastating counterattacks...