Word: record
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...withstood a profit squeeze on PCs. Estimates are that last year it posted an operating profit of $268 on each PC it shipped, while Compaq earned only $64 a unit and IBM actually lost $127. Even so, Dell is not relying just on PCs to extend its proud record of being the only company among the FORTUNE 500 that has increased revenues and profits more than 40% in each of the past three years. It is, in fact, somewhat de-emphasizing PCs to put more of a manufacturing and marketing push on such higher-margin products as servers, workstations, notebooks...
...seven venues: Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York/New Jersey, Portland, Ore., San Francisco/San Jose and Washington. The final will be played at the Rose Bowl on July 10. And if the U.S. is playing for the trophy, the 92,542-seat stadium could sell out, setting a new record...
...soccer world is upside down. The U.S. men finished dead last in the World Cup last year, bickering all the way. In that same year, a record 7.5 million U.S. women and girls registered for soccer teams, just under half of all player registrations. "Part of our mission statement is gender equity, and we've taken it very seriously, investing heavily in the women's game," says Steinbrecher. Cindy Parlow, 21, a slinky striker from Memphis, Tenn., has been in organized soccer since she was four. Like seven of her teammates, she attended the University of North Carolina, a perennial...
...when it comes to her approach to fame. Jordan wears his celebrity comfortably, effortlessly, like a scarf thrown over his shoulders. Hamm finds the garment restricting. She has refused cover shoots for magazines because she doesn't want to steal the spotlight from her teammates. After scoring her record-breaking 108th international goal, against Brazil in May, she told a TV reporter to "get a life" when he asked her how she felt...
...release of the Nas video and the subsequent attack on Stoute came as yet more bad news in a year in which Combs had already been fighting to steer his company, Bad Boy Records, out of its current doldrums. The bounty of multiplatinum hits from Mase, the Notorious B.I.G. and Puffy himself has tapered off, and the label's new releases have yet to pick up the slack. Albums by Faith Evans, Total and 112 were all expected to be strong hits, but so far only 112's Room 112 is approaching platinum. "By Puffy standards, a gold record...