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...company expects to have a working prototype of this power train next year and even foresees limited sales to gotta-have car fanatics in 1998. But there is no way of knowing exactly how close they are to the multimillion-dollar and possibly multibillion-dollar payday that awaits them if the engine is mass produced. The hybrid works well in the lab, but the first road tests have been postponed until next year...
...Shachar's study of psychology has already ventured far beyond the ivory tower. In the past three years, he has worked as an organizational consultant for a multibillion dollar corporation...
...country, exposing business and community leaders to the problems of the young. In the mid-1980s, the Children's Defense Fund helped focus national attention on the problem of teen pregnancy. In the late '80s, it put together a coalition that was instrumental in the 1990 passage of a multibillion-dollar child-care bill for low-income working parents...
...imagined that getting the Federal Trade Commission to bless the merger between Time Warner and the Turner Broadcasting System, two giants in the multibillion-dollar cable-TV business, would be a walk in the park. So it was hardly a surprise last week when leaks emanating from the FTC suggested that agency staff members favored blocking the $7.5 billion merger in its current form. Whatever the staff's inclination, the actual decision to approve or block the deal will be made by the five Federal Trade Commissioners. And they have yet to speak...
...contribution from the Mormon Church to set up an 800 phone number, and Grey's own $3,000-a-month stipend from the Methodist Church. NCALG's new Washington office, in a back room of the National Council of Churches, is staffed by volunteers. "We're up against a multibillion-dollar industry," says Grey. "And we're beating them with housewives and dentists." The movement's strength lies in such groups as Virginians Deserve Better, Bucks County People Serving a Larger Mission, and Stand Up for Kansas, all of which Grey is welding together. "If it weren...