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...that Viagra gave him a heart attack ?- and at $85 million, it?s a lulu. "He was perfectly healthy, and five days after he started taking Viagra -- bam," said Ronald Benjamin, attorney for Padro and his wife, Maria, Thursday after filing the suit in state Supreme Court against the maker of the impotency treatment drug. "The warning about Viagra to the medical profession is inadequate...
...YORK: Well, they can?t all be bulls. But FORTUNE writer Nelson Schwartz says that despite Intel's after-the-bell report Tuesday that its second-quarter earnings declined 29 percent from last year to 66 cents per share, the chip maker?s stock shouldn?t take too much of a hit -? because on Wall Street, as in Washington, the spin?s the thing. "Although the published expectation was higher, at 68 cents, the way Intel announced it was much more important than the actual number," says Schwartz. "They predicted a better performance for the next quarter," and that...
...Society, "is an attempt to reconstitute the family, at least symbolically." Shirley Wilcox, president of the National Genealogical Society in Arlington, Va., acknowledges that "computers and the Internet are also responsible for fueling interest." Masses of material can be organized more efficiently with software programs such as Family Tree Maker, the Master Genealogist, Ultimate Family Tree, Family Origins and Personal Ancestral File...
...came up demonstrably short at Sunbeam. The appliance maker lost $44.6 million in the first quarter, and may post another loss this quarter. Analysts who thought the company would earn $2 a share in 1999 put the figure today just north of $1. Sunbeam suffers from an inventory glut that will take months to assess and longer to fix. It appears Dunlap had been "stuffing the channel," persuading retailers through discounts to buy more gas grills than they would normally need. This practice helped swell Sunbeam earnings in 1997 but led to this year's crash. Even Dunlap's huge...
Even the pros sometimes fail to do all their homework. Last Monday I bought stock in Steelcase, the largest maker of office furniture in the U.S., only to discover afterward that it had been decked by its Canadian business. Huh? What Canadian business...