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...Jordan's Furniture, a New England retailer with $250 million in annual sales. His biggest deals, though, have been in insurance, starting with auto insurer Geico in 1996 and then the $22 billion acquisition of reinsurer General Re at the end of 1997. (Insurance companies need to lay off risk, hence reinsurance companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berkshire's Buffett-ing | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...grade book report roughage, featured an innovative learning tool under the entry on the Human Body: seven consecutive pages of transparencies, each devoted to a different organic system. Page 1's skin'n'hair'n'nails fit neatly over Page 2's spindly circulation road map which in turn lay on Page 3's inexplicably adipose-yellow GI tracts or Halloween skeleton man, and so on. At a glance, you saw and saw through man instantly, as through, yes, X-ray specs, a three-dimensional simultaneity of vision and understanding...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Things Past | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...Wring dry and lay flat on the top rack of a dishwasher. Use lemon-scent detergent and wash the shirt with "pot-scrubber" (two cycles) and "heated dry" (two cycles). The shirt should be fairly stiff, crunchy and a lighter shade of gray...

Author: By F.g. Tilney, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Ready Prep? Go! | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...hope is that we won't have to lay anybody off, but can take advantage...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman and Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Money in the Bank | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...Wring dry and lay flat on the top rack of a dishwasher. Use lemon-scent detergent and wash the shirt with "pot-scrubber" (two cycles) and "heated dry" (two cycles). The shirt should be fairly stiff, crunchy and a lighter shade of gray...

Author: By F. G. Tilney, | Title: Ready Prep GO! | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

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