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...Someone at dinner - Aunt Nancy - said she met the woman on a flight from Phoenix to New York. Nancy sat reading a book. The woman in the seat beside her - young, well dressed, evidently intelligent - confided, in a bemused, regretful sort of way: "I've never read a book." After a moment, she sighed: "Perhaps I should...
...much went right when the chief executives of the world's fourth and fifth largest contract manufacturers started discussing a potential marriage three months ago. The hotel conference room where they met near the Phoenix, Ariz., airport was cramped and seriously lacking in air conditioning. Even the bottled water was too warm to drink as Randy Furr, president and COO of Sanmina, made the pitch for his younger firm, then worth $7.7 billion, to buy SCI, then worth $4 billion, and considered a pioneer in the fast-growing business of manufacturing tech hardware for name-brand companies like Dell, Hewlett...
Indianapolis and Cleveland were also successful in their bids, which earned them hosting rights for the 2005 and 2007 Women’s Final Fours, respectively. St. Louis—the host of the most recent Women’s Final Four—and Phoenix were also considered...
...financial community reacted with skepticism last May when, after six years of losses totalling $1.24 billion, BMW sold the British automaker Rover to four businessmen. Even the new owner's chosen name - the Phoenix Consortium - seemed little more than wishful thinking for a company that hadn't turned a profit since 1994. But now the trimmed-down, reconfigured Rover is about to announce some surprising financial details: losses were cut to $424 million in the last fiscal year, and management expects to halve them this year en route to breaking even in 2002. Finally, some grudging respect is coming Phoenix...
...first blind person I ever met," she says. "I fell in love the second I saw him. He had so much confidence and flair for living." Erik first met Ellie Reeve in Arizona, when he was interviewing for a job at Phoenix Country Day School, where she taught. Though she later wondered what sharing her life with a sightless person would be like, she quickly realized that Erik was well equipped to cope with his dark world. "He does things by instinct. When he walks, he doesn't lift his feet, he feels the floor," says Ellie. "The only thing...