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...people spoke of eclipsing Roger Maris and the corporate types spoke of rebuilding downtown areas with shiny new old-time baseball arenas. No more cookie-cutters! More ballparks with character; with nooks and crannies and doodads and gobblygooks and plush seats and waiter service for RJR Nabisco's senior executive vice president in charge of bureaucracy...
...from their high point, but from their average price, a proxy for the price most people paid for the stock over that period. On the list are plenty of big, widely held companies, including oil-services giant Halliburton, tractor company Deere, Northwest Airlines and food-and-tobacco conglomerate RJR Nabisco...
...reality, we cannot: we are still participating in the economy every time we buy a textbook; we are still participating in democracy every time we do or do not cast a vote; we are still making a political statement every time we purchase a product made by Nabisco or Nike...
...ticker, during-the-break Dow updates, and Maria "The Money Honey" Bartiromo -- wades into movie waters with the excellent HBO-produced Barbarians at the Gate (1993). With recent revelations about the birth of Joe Camel, the broadcast of this savvy comedy of business manners, about the takeover of RJR Nabisco, is fortuitously timed. You get Jim Garner and Jonathan Pryce (not to mention Fred Thompson). You laugh. You learn a little something. Sure, you can rent it, but CP says be on hand at eight for this dream marriage of news and moviedom...
...good companies in most corners of the globe. Want to invest in the world's largest pharmaceutical company? It's Switzerland's Novartis, not U.S.-based Johnson & Johnson or Merck. Have a taste for the planet's biggest food company? It's Netherlands-based Unilever, not home-baked RJR Nabisco or Sara Lee. Biggest farm-equipment maker? It's Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, not Caterpillar or Deere. Metal goods? Try France's Pechiney, not Alcoa...