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Olivetti, a failed Italian typewriter maker reincarnated as a communications firm, stuns Europe's stock markets with a dramatic, $65 billion offer to take over Telecom Italia, a telephone behemoth seven times its size. A cozy merger between Societe Generale and Paribas, two of France's leading banks, is thrown into disarray when a rival Paris financial house proposes to swallow them both. A battle for control of Italian fashion giant Gucci turns venomous when a French billionaire proclaims that he has snatched the company from the clutches of a rival French raider...
This year the mock trial teams took on a wrongful death civil suit in which a grieving spouse sued the maker of an airplane's fuel gauge, alleging that the gauge's malfunction led to their spouse's case and death...
This year the mock trial teams took on a wrongful death civil suit in which a grieving spouse sued the maker of an airplane's fuel gauge, alleging that the gauge's malfunction led to their spouse's case and death...
...Micron PC offered free support a year ago when I bought it. But like most other PC makers, Micron now charges $24.95 for help with software after 30 days (hardware help is still free). I understand why this has to be. Margins in the PC business are thinner than Bill Gates' smile. Why should any PC maker have to fix the zillions of problems that can arise when consumers install their own software? A few enlightened manufacturers, such as Dell, offer free lifetime support for any software shipped on their machines. As PCs become interchangeable--one box much the same...
Before Cousteau, undersea exploration was limited by the length of a human breath or the tether on a diving helmet. His co-invention of the Aqua-Lung in 1943 freed us to roam the ocean depths--like an "archangel" flying through the heavens, as he put it. Maker of more than 150 films, beginning with his Oscar-winning The Silent World in 1956, Cousteau revealed a flotilla of wondrous creatures to an audience that was instantly entranced. In his last book, Man, Octopus and Orchid, published shortly after his death in 1997 at the age of 87, Cousteau summed...