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Many of today's consolidations are fundamentally different from conglomerate mergers. Companies are now snapping up firms in fields linked to their own rather than amassing jumbles of unrelated enterprises. Conglomerates were based on the idea that "if you're a good manager, you can manage anything," says Alfred Rappaport...
Chongqing's factories are being allowed to turn out consumer products along with staples ordered by the government. The 98-year-old Jianshe Machine Tool Works, for example, produces Yamaha motorcycles as well as rifles. The reforms are stimulating competition. Jianshe's Yamahas are up against Hondas assembled in another...
He states, "I'm not scared to say I love the game." As though he ever was afraid. "But my players are." For a year, Rose has been the manager as well as the usual first baseman of the Cincinnati Reds, his hometown and original team. "Maybe it's because...
Until last year, when New York Yankees Pitcher Waite ("Schoolboy") Hoyt died grudgingly at 84, he served Rose as a Cobb historian and utility Merlin. Having been a pallbearer for Babe Ruth, Hoyt was a certified carrier of legends. In retelling tales of Cobb, Rose animatedly acts them out, clapping...
Seeing Enos Slaughter of the Cardinals run out a walk to first base, Rose resolved that he would do that every time if he ever made it to pro ball. Rose's uncle Curley Smart was a clubhouse helper for the Redlegs and helped Pete into an extra uniform. While...