Word: liebermans
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When Larami, a Philadelphia toy company, introduced its Super-Soaker water gun this past spring, it was a success. But sales over the past few weeks have been so overwhelming that the item is completely sold out in stores. "We've sold millions," says company spokesman Bob Lieberman. "We have three factories in China working 24 hours a day, and we still can't keep up with the demand." They're also becoming hot in Europe and Japan...
...could George McGovern in the '92 presidential election. How about a two-George parlay? Giggles or not, jiggles or not, a lot of comebacking is being attempted at the world-class level in sports. A reasonable citizen may wonder what Foreman, Bjorn Borg, Larry Holmes, Sugar Ray Leonard, Nancy Lieberman Cline, John McEnroe, Jim Palmer, Mark Spitz and Jill Sterkel have in common. A reasonable answer might be they're nuts. They're all trying, or trying to try, or have recently tried, comebacks, holding high the torch for middle-aged wheezers everywhere...
Women athletes are no less susceptible to ego and endorphins than men, though their comebacks tend to be no-bucks, low-publicity events. But Nancy Lieberman Cline, 32, arguably the best woman basketball player ever, is working out several hours a day to make her third Olympic team, and sprint swimmer Jill Sterkel, 29, hopes to make her fifth. Why do it? Says Lieberman Cline: "As world-class athletes, we are treated special. Since the first moment anyone recognized we had an ounce of talent, we've been stroked. We're spoiled...
...Kuwait and the ensuing run-up of petroleum prices. The firms included Chevron, which last week reported earnings of $633 million for the fourth quarter of 1990, an eightfold increase over the final quarter of the previous year. After such reports, Democrats Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut introduced a Senate bill for a windfall- profits tax on Big Oil to help...
...leading oil companies reported that their earnings rose sharply in the July-September quarter. At Phillips Petroleum, profits more than doubled, to $178 million. Unocal's earnings were up 53%, to $121 million. The Justice Department and the Senate are investigating oil pricing. And some legislators, notably Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat, are calling for a new windfall- profits tax. Said he: "The escalating price of oil is the result of panic, speculation and price gouging during a time of national crisis...