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...down to Alex and Margaret - inexplicably - turns into Peggy. Coca-Cola had barely dented the national consciousness before it was compressed to a short and sweet Coke. Ditto the National Biscuit Co., which sounds like a place that manufactures dog chew toys - until you abbreviate it to the scrumptious Nabisco...
...NABISCO South Korea Ritz-cracker cheese sandwiches...
...systems, in a stock transaction valued at $21.4 billion. (Bell Atlantic said the figure included $11.8 billion of stock that it plans to issue and the assumption of $9.6 million of TCI debt.) That would make the deal second in size only to the $25 billion purchase of RJR Nabisco by buyout barons Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 1988. The new giant would boast 28 million cable and phone customers across the U.S. and combined revenues of more than $16 billion, making it by far the largest of the seven Baby Bell companies that were spun off from...
...most buttoned-down of the bunch is James Kilts, a former CEO of Gillette, Nabisco and Kraft and author of Doing What Matters. Befitting his lengthy résumé, which includes teaching at the University of Chicago's business school, Kilts has written a dense, complex book intended for others at the top. His description of starting a job says it all: "Your first day of a new job should be like the first hours of the D-Day landing by the Allies during World War II." In Kilts' book, nonexecutive employees are casts of thousands, not individuals. Kilts bluntly declares...
...tennis is no longer the only sport affording women a nice living, and Pressel's decision to practice bunker shots over drop shots at age 8 is starting to pay off. She's currently third on the 2007 LPGA money list, with $432,833, after winning the Kraft Nabisco Championship this month, becoming the youngest woman, at 18, to take a golf major. Uncle Aaron holds the same record in men's pro tennis, except he was 16. "Aaron was so excited for me, and that was cute to see," says Pressel. With her ranking skyrocketing to fourth...