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...time venture are scrambling to fill orders. General Comet Industries, which licenses a comet logo, has enticed nearly a dozen businesses to slap the trademark onto products such as running shoes and cocktail mixes. General Comet also sells its own paraphernalia, including elegantly engraved "comet stock" certificates at a mere $9.95 per 100 shares. "We started this as a lighthearted spoof," says Ryan, "but the response has been overwhelming." Two years ago, a pair of air-traffic controllers in Albuquerque launched Astroline Products, selling Halley's pins, caps and traveling bags part time. Now the business is growing...
...purposely calm voice, Reagan responded, "As I said to you, I have a right to think you want to use your missiles against us. With mere words we cannot abolish the threat...
...still a very good work," says Berlin Curator Jan Kelch. While the museum will rehang it and has no intention of selling it, the raw realities of the art market are not nearly so aesthetically pure. The painting's estimated value has dropped from $8 million to a mere...
...Information he supplied led to the arrest of Pelton and implicated a former CIA underling, Edward Howard, who fled the country in September. Yet the cases do little to clear up the mystery of whether Yurchenko's defection was real; the two small fish he delivered may have been mere throwaways designed to distract the CIA and obscure the fact that he was a double agent all along...
...dollars, Star Wars could prove to be the most capacious pork barrel of all time. So far, SDI research has been funded to the tune of $2.385 billion ($1.397 billion in the past year), spread among 20 large and 200 small companies and a dozen universities. While this is mere microchips to the better than $100 billion-a-year defense industry, SDI already has something in common with more entrenched systems: by one account, three-fourths of all prime contracts in space defense work awarded since 1983 have gone to states or districts represented by members of the House...