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...making the money? A Federal Trade Commission investigation in March ruled out collusion among the oil companies, who have been in a consolidation mode since the late '90s. And relative prices are still lower than they were in the '60s. That's not to say refinery profit margins haven't increased handsomely from the supply squeeze. Operating profits have surged this year at refiners like Valero and big oil companies like BP Amoco and ExxonMobil. "Refiners have made a killing over the past 15-to-18 months," says Chris Stavros, an oil-industry analyst at UBS Warburg. Stavros points...
...FULLY COMMITTED A frazzled afternoon with the reservations clerk for a hot-hot-hot Manhattan restaurant. Becky Mode's one-actor play (a hit off-Broadway and now in L.A.) is a tart and hilarious send-up of the social feeding frenzy...
...making the money? A Federal Trade Commission investigation in March ruled out collusion among the oil companies, who have been in a consolidation mode since the late '90s. And relative prices are still lower than they were in the '60s. That's not to say refinery profit margins haven't increased handsomely from the supply squeeze. Operating profits have surged this year at refiners like Valero and big oil companies like BP Amoco and ExxonMobil. "Refiners have made a killing over the past 15-to-18 months," says Chris Stavros, an oil-industry analyst at UBS Warburg. Stavros points...
...entering the realm of popular fiction. Helen Fielding, author of the best-selling Bridget Jones's Diary, has launched an "Ask Bridget" service with Finnish wireless entertainment publisher RIOT-E. For 34 cent, subscribers can dial up a daily text message from Fielding - writing in characteristic Bridget Jones mode - on the quest for thinner thighs and inner poise. "Mobile phones are a perfect way to add another dimension to book characters," says Jan Wellman, RIOT-E's chief executive...
...does in the U.S. Another reason for the superiority of European and Japanese mobile telephony is better transmission standards. The Europe-wide GSM standard has long allowed a range of uses that are only just becoming widely available in the U.S.; the Japanese firm NTT DoCoMo, with its i-mode technology, has made mobile Internet access available to millions. But there's more to it than that...