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...Shenandoah Valley farmer's front yard. The farmer looks around for a few minutes, then asks, "How about if I take that deer over there and pay you the difference?" The animal in question is a buck, 4 ft. high, with a brown paint job and an impressive rack of gleaming metal antlers. "That'd be fine," says Harper. He calls his sons Doug and Dale and son-in-law Russell Armentrout out of the work shed to reclaim the Virgin Mary and wrestle 300 lbs. of concrete venison onto the truck...
...million in 1986 to 3.7 million in 1987, Ford sales declined only 1%, to 2 million cars. In just one year, GM's U.S. market share shrank from 41% to 37%, while Ford's grew from 18% to 20%. Moreover, by earning more on each car, Ford continued to rack up bigger profits than its much larger rival. Through the first nine months of 1987, GM earned $2.7 billion on revenues of $75.4 billion, but Ford cleared $3.7 billion on $52.9 billion...
...three months Army Colonel Gregorio ("Gringo") Honasan, 39, had profoundly unsettled the Philippines. As the leader of a military uprising that exploded in Manila on Aug. 28, he ignited the most violent fighting to rack the capital since 1945, and nearly toppled President Corazon Aquino. Then, as the Philippine army swung to Aquino's side, Honasan and a band of followers embarked on a dangerous game of hide-and-seek. From sanctuaries around the capital, the colonel issued tirades against the government, castigating it for ineffectiveness in fighting the insurgent, Communist-led New People's Army. The military's inability...
...others," says Skadden, Arps Managing Director Earle Yaffa. "Now there's an emphasis on talent." So much emphasis that the competition for top law students has driven starting pay to above $70,000 a year in some places. But to earn their keep, new associates are expected to rack up at least 2,000 billable hours annually. That leaves little time for personal lives or for pro bono work, the free services provided to indigent clients or public-service groups...
...fastest- rising exchange, as share prices climbed more than 649% during the first nine months of 1987. The government's foreign currency reserves swelled by 150% to a comfortable $17 billion, the highest level of any Latin American debtor country, and a surge of exports helped the Mexicans rack up a $6.6 billion trade surplus...