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Also to learn. Chamorro owes her election not to any natural gift for leadership but to her married name. Though graced with regal poise and an engaging personality, she has had little experience in public life. Her grasp of Nicaragua's Sisyphean economic challenge is tenuous, and her political range is narrow: at least initially, she is leaning heavily on the dozen family members and advisers who constitute her brain trust...
Under the reorganization, the Cutlass Supreme was subsumed into the $5 billion GM-10 project, which also developed versions of the Buick Regal and the Pontiac Grand Prix, all of which shared components with one another. In spite of GM's huge investment in retooling and reorganization, the result was a car line that has failed to excite consumers. Further weakened by a slumping U.S. auto market, the Olds Cutlass has turned into a money loser...
...copper-domed pot stills at 101 distilleries scattered throughout Scotland and are aged for at least four years in used sherry or bourbon casks. When combined with cheaper, less flavorsome grain whiskies, they become the blends that most consumers think of as Scotch. A quality brand, like Chivas Regal, may be 65% malt, with whiskies chosen from 40 different distilleries...
...bills mount, many parents suspect that institutions are kicking up their fees at will, knowing that families will pay almost anything to give their child the cachet of a Harvard or Yale degree. "It's Chivas Regal pricing," says Kalman Chany, president of Campus Consultants Inc., a Manhattan-based financial-aid consulting firm. "The most selective schools can afford to charge what they want because they've got lines out the door of people who want to go there...
...Icons as regal as Ernie Banks ($12 an autograph), Willie Mays ($12) and Joe DiMaggio ($30) are involved. "It's the free-enterprise system," says ex- Oriole pitcher Jim Palmer, who is capable of modeling underpants on billboards without blushing and is available to sign anyone's shorts for $10. Mostly they sign bubble-gum cards and glossy pictures...