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...PEAK SKI RESORT
First Investors was one of the first mutuals to buy junk in quantity from Milken. The high-flying paper helped two of the firm's 25 funds (the Fund for Income and the High Yield Fund) grow to more than $2.4 billion in assets. At its peak, First Investors commanded an army of 5,000 sales agents spread throughout 285 offices in 49 states -- most of them inexperienced, ill trained and often crammed like cattle into boiler-room offices. The agents memorized scripted pitches that they parroted to customers, usually over the phone. The firm also uses a pyramid-style...
Kolvenbach must lean on reduced forces to tackle the Eastern Europe assignment and other challenges to his men. Although the Jesuits remain the biggest Catholic male religious order, they have declined from a 1965 peak of 36,000 members to the current 23,870 or so. The rate of loss is slowing, however, and the number of seminarians has increased steadily since the nadir in the 1970s. Significantly, the sources of decline are largely limited to the First World; 63% of today's Jesuit recruits worldwide are Asians, Africans and Latin Americans. There are 3,522 Jesuits in the area...
...Molodezhny milk store in the Frunze District of northwest Moscow used to be famous for its dairy products. Nowadays, almost no customers are seen there during peak afternoon shopping hours. No wonder. Refrigerator cases offer bottles of a sour apple-grape drink instead of butter and cheese. In a touch of the absurd, otherwise barren shelves display seltzer-water dispensers and brightly colored plastic Little Drummer Rabbit dolls, presumably for toddlers who will have to do without fresh milk...
...only made me pick my appropriately named torture. I had the options of "interval training" (intervals of two weeks, I hoped), "Pike's Peak" (for those who exercise in hiking boots instead of Reeboks), "random" (for my house assignment), "manual control" (for Gov. concentrators), "roller coaster" (the machine does a 360 while you climb), "lunar landing" (so you can space out while exercising) or "steady climb" (for underachievers...