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China's savvy bid contrasts sharply with its failed 1993 effort. Back then police rounded up mentally handicapped people who might have wandered into sight of an IOC motorcade and beat one to death. The government enmeshed its bid with an empty political slogan: "A More Open China Awaits the 2000 Games." Nothing like that this time. Beijing emphasizes the country's rich history and the $12 billion the city will spend on environmental protection. Its current slogan, "New Beijing, Great Olympics," deliberately focuses on the city, not the country's policies...
...that of baseball in Brooklyn would have survived the various corrupting influences of modern professional sport. I wonder if the days of walking down Flatbush Avenue and hearing Dodger broadcasts blaring from a million windows would have lasted through those four lost decades. Aging fans now exult at the sight of a Brooklyn ballpark and relive old memories; I wonder what my memories would have been...
...buyout - in the form of lots of shares in the profitable Comcast - and call it a day. Certainly Comcast's $58 billion offer - made loudly to shareholders Monday after Armstrong balked too many times in private - was just an opening bid; no decent M&A gets done at first sight. And Armstrong can wait...
...sight to see in a city whose baseball history had been notably un-notable; here the Mariners were a few pitchers short of making Seattle a baseball town to be feared, and their stars - the heart of their team - were fleeing town for sunnier climes. The only star in town was going to be Starbucks, and Seattle, as a baseball town, was going back to being Milwaukee...
...tough to survive as a mainstream car manufacturer when most of your cars are not new," says Jim Collins, an auto analyst at UBS Warburg, noting that Rover's small and medium lines are coming up to their fifth and seventh year, respectively, with no new models in sight. And Collins says he doesn't see where Rover will get the millions - if not billions - of dollars needed for new-car development. Perhaps that's true of big carmakers, Howe retorts, but MG Rover has repositioned itself as a nimble manufacturer of niche products, selling between...