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Last week's news shook Wall Street like a 100-point dive in the Dow Jones industrial average. Traders are wondering who might be the investigators' next target. Says one broker: "Everybody has done insider trading at one time or another." Observes a senior investment banker: "People used to joke around about insider trading. Now it's in extremely bad taste to crack such jokes." These days, needless to say, Dennis Levine and those who swapped secrets with him are not laughing...
Among other things, Goizueta unleashed the blizzard of mega-brand marketing that produced Diet Coke, Cherry Coke and (still being tested) Diet Cherry Coke, not to mention new Coke and the hurried reincarnation of old Coke as Coca-Cola Classic. He shook up the company's mostly franchised bottling operations, causing about 100 of the outlets, supplying roughly 70% of the U.S. market, to change hands. Goizueta's most radical step has been to overturn the cash-heavy financial management championed by longtime Coca-Cola Chairman Robert Woodruff. During Goizueta's reign, Coca-Cola has borrowed $1.3 billion, mostly...
...Tripoli, the thunderous whine of the jet engines was followed by sudden concussive crescendos, as 500-lb. gravity bombs and 2,000-lb. Paveway II laser-guided bombs started to explode. The massive blasts shook windows throughout the city, jolting sleeping residents awake--and sometimes more than that. "When the firing woke me up, I immediately thought of throwing myself on the floor," recalled an Italian resident. "Then a big explosion...
...beliefs, yea or nay, is important to me. But this serious issue, which John had made his product, coupled with his sly presentation, nettled me, closed up my ears. His cordial hustle had been effective enough that I answered him straightforwardly--but negatively. Chris just rolled his eyes, and shook his head. And in less than half a minute, his unsuccessful spiel through, John was gone...
...from Rome to Athens with 115 passengers and seven crew members aboard, had already begun its descent toward the Athens international airport. Twenty minutes before the plane's expected landing, as it flew at 15,000 ft. over Argos, a town near the ancient site of Mycenae, an explosion shook the aircraft. At first the pilot, Captain Richard Peterson, 56, a 30-year veteran, thought the problem was a broken window, though he later likened the thunderous sound to that of "a shotgun going off next to your ear." Said Passenger Jane Klingel, 25, from California: "The plane shook...