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...seems that the big American firms are not quite ready to compete in the world economy. They owe many of their tenuous gains to the weak dollar, which jacks up the price of foreign steel; that has helped reduce the imports' share of the U.S. steel market from a peak of 26% in 1984 to about 16% today. "The nonunion companies are world-class leaders," says John Tumazos, who follows the steel industry for the firm Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette. "The competitiveness of the large, traditional companies results primarily from the weak dollar...
What a difference a year makes: Gardini reached the peak of his fame only last spring, when his racing yacht, Il Moro di Venezia, defied sailing experts and reached the finals in the America's Cup. Il Moro's success cast Gardini as the personification of Italian style, an image especially sweet for a man whose childhood on a farm in Ravenna earned him the lifelong nickname "il contadino," the peasant...
...There Lewis was examined by a team headed by Dr. Gilbert Mudge, chief of the hospital's cardiology clinic. Mudge's diagnosis, delivered in a televised press conference: no life-threatening heartbeat arrhythmia, but instead neurocardiogenic syncope, a fairly benign fainting condition caused by nerve irregularities during or after peak periods of exertion. "I am confident," said Mudge, "he can return to professional basketball without limitations...
...visitors get more than water for their tickets ($38 per adult during the peak May-October season). Seagaia also has the Bali Hai zone, where an artificial volcano explodes every 15 min. with a thundering boom and a plume of smoke. The inside of the volcano is open for viewing -- and leads all who dare enter into the Dragon Sanctuary, where a skeletal creature is enshrined in light amid spooky music. Nearby is an adventure ride called Water Crash -- a drip-dry, 5-minute introduction to white-water rafting. The rapids are projected onto a screen as the raft bucks...
...level we are facing right now, it is difficult for some of our Japanese-made models to be competitive in the U.S.," a Toyota executive says. Some Western observers suspect they are witnessing a sea change. "There is a good chance that Japanese carmakers have passed their historical peak in the U.S.," says Benjamin Moyer, a car analyst in the Tokyo office of Merrill Lynch...