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Investcorp posted profits of $52 million last year from holdings that include a 50% stake in Gucci, the leather-goods empire, as well as control of Color Tile, the largest U.S. floor-coverings retailer, and Carvel, the ice- cream chain. After taking over Tiffany in a friendly buyout in 1984, Investcorp took the jewelry chain public again within three years and made a profit of $100 million...
Despite the flamboyance of his rhetoric, officials say McGee has committed no crimes because he is not advocating "imminent lawless action." Indeed, the sidearm he packs in a leather holster is a slingshot. But Mayor John Norquist charges that McGee's firebrand behavior is "doing more to scare jobs away from his district" than to help it. "It's one thing to try to attract investment and capital," says Norquist. "It's another to use extortion...
Loud young women in long leather coats. A mother wrapped in a traditional Indian sari escorting her blue-jean-clad daughter. Tourists taking pictures. Parents leading their six-and 10-year-old children by the hand to show them what a presigious university is really like...
Happy Land was living up to its name on Sunday last week. Well after 3 a.m., strobe lights were pulsing through the cigarette haze to bounce off young women twisting in slinky miniskirts and high heels. Youthful men in leather pants and bright shirts picked up the beat of salsa, reggae and Honduran calypso...
...what they gave us." He gestured toward a crumbling row of apartments. A few blocks away, in Halle's central market place, the CDU's campaign promise of quick prosperity seemed to have already arrived. West German vendors had set up tables in the square, selling everything from leather coats and potted plants to French asparagus and Italian kiwifruits...