Word: maker
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...million), a Philadelphia maker of tamper-resistant packaging and one of the few firms in the industry whose stock is publicly traded. The price of West shares jumped more than $3 in a single day, following reports of the Tylenol deaths, and the volume of trading exploded by more than 6,000%. West stock, which had been selling for around 16 be fore the poisonings, closed last week at 20⅛. Says Robert Campbell, a spokesman for the company: "We've got queries about our products from across the board, not only from over-the-counter-drug packagers...
...college coach in the country). The next week, they stunned Clemson when they rallied from a 14-0 deficit for a 17-17 tie. Two weeks ago, B. C. almost stumbled against against 18-point underdog Rutgers. But quarterback Doug Flutie (from Natick, Mass.), B. C.'s chief miracle-maker this year, led an 87-yd drive in the final 1:18, passing for a touchdown, a two-point conversion and a 14-13 victory...
...most celebrated--and complicated--characters of our time. Because so many writers sketch Lennon from so many angles, you get a feeling of completeness and accuracy rare in most biographies of popular artists. Rolling Stone writers saw Lennon the musician, the radical and the husband/father. Lennon the film maker, the thinker and the Beatles. Their visions add up to present a man who created without compromise, without abandoning his convictions. The portrait shows how tragic it is that Lennon died before his time with so much more left to give. But he has willed to us all the legacy...
...value of his holdings in American Airlines fell from $28 to $7 a share by 1974, and he lost thousands of dollars. After the latest rally began earlier this month, Astorino decided to take another plunge. He paid $4 each for 200 shares of Photo-Control Corp., a maker of specialty camera equipment. As the market gyrated wildly last week, Astorino was very nervous. Said he: "I'm just a little guy who can't afford to lose a lot. I see no reason for the market to go up, but thank God, that's what...
Werner Herzog is in love with the impossible. It seduces, challenges, obsesses him. It lures him to forbidden kingdoms, from the Sahara to the Amazon, where holy misfits are given the chance to realize or cheat their destinies. The risks this German film maker takes - with his subject matter, with his and his company's safety, with an audience's willingness to accede to his demons - make a reckless ad venturer like Francis Coppola seem stodgy by comparison. For Heart of Glass Herzog hypnotized his actors, and on the receptive viewer his films have a similar effect: their...