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...YORK -- Capital Cities Communications Inc announced an agreement yesterday to acquire the much larger American Broadcasting Cos Inc (ABC) for more than $3.5 billion in a deal that includes the participation of Warren Buffett, one of the nation's richest...
Bird accepts this, his richest statistical season, as the introduction to his prime, "because 28 just sounds about right." That suits Gretzky, who at 24 would fervently like four more years of incline, but he wonders. "When Guy Lafleur retired this season, and I saw he had played only 14 years, I thought, 'Hey, I've played seven already.' Maybe I am halfway through." The first time he and Lafleur ever faced off, it seemed the puck would never drop, and under the tension of the wait, below the clamor of the crowd, he heard Lafleur murmur...
When Louis XIV outlawed the Protestant Huguenots in France, thousands of them came to Geneva, bringing their skills as watchmakers, jewelers, merchants, bankers. Within a century they had helped make dour Geneva one of the richest cities in the world. It still forbade theatrical performances as sinful, so Voltaire acquired a new house just across the French border in order to stage his plays. Today Geneva boasts a refurbished Grand Theater (it had been gutted in 1951 when something went wrong during one of the more fiery scenes in Wagner's Die Walkure), but there is still very little night...
World automakers do not rank among big league players until they sell their cars in the U.S., the world's richest auto showroom. Last week South Korea announced its bid for a place in that market. Executives of Hyundai Motor America, a subsidiary of South Korea's largest industrial conglomerate (est. 1984 sales: $10.3 billion), said that they will begin selling cars in the U.S. this fall...
...world looks a good deal different from the one that appeared to Arnold. The imperial impulse that brought Europe to its glory eventually helped bring it to its knees, and the world's richest, most powerful, most industrially sophisticated nation now lies to the west of England, on the far side of an ocean. In 1851 Arnold could stand in his country, gaze across the Channel at France and behold the world's two giants. These days one may behold the world's two giants from the moon or from the Bering Strait. But where, metaphorically, is our Dover Beach...