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Last year a relaxation of the U.S. trade embargo allowed Cuba to buy U.S. food products--a privilege it began exercising in November when it purchased 30,000 tons of corn from Archer Daniels Midland. Since then Fidel Castro's government has spent $90 million in scarce hard currency on staples like rice, wheat and chicken. Now Castro and his buyers would like to sample brand-name products. This fall more than 150 American companies such as specialty pastamaker Bushel 42 and Spam producer Hormel will travel to Havana to show off Napa Valley wines, soy burgers, candy bars...
...firehouse that Lieut. Jimmy Rallis, one of the higher-ranking officers, began pulling the men aside. "I told them they should stop giving him crap because these photographs have a long history. The guy in the Baby Jessica picture killed himself," says Rallis, referring to the fireman in Midland, Texas, who pulled a baby from a well in 1987 and committed suicide eight years later. "Mike didn't ask for his picture to be taken, and he doesn't need any more pressure because of it. It scares...
...major industry restructuring may be on the way. Look for discounters to gain even more market share and for some of the majors to merge. Worst hit will be the mid-sized players: the chief executive of British Midland, the U.K.'s second-largest airline, conceded this month that B.M.I. needs to adopt low-cost principles and forge alliances with other airlines to survive...
Jantzen, Rechul, O’Donnell and senior 197-pounder Brad Soltis, who is coming off of an injury, will compete in the Midland tournament at Northwetsern on the same weekend...
...veteran of the low-cost skies. He's on the road at least twice a month and estimates that 10% of his travel is on discounters. His round-trip fare cost $47 on Ryanair, and would have cost at least four times as much on British Airways, British Midland or Lufthansa. But he's found out that reduced flexibility is part of the price business travelers pay to get a cheap fair on the discounters. "When your ticket is completely nonrefundable, you have to make your flight," he says ruefully. "That can be a major problem when meetings run late...