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...says 1994 "may have been the worst year in 20 years" for women's clothes. Part of the reason has to do with merchandising rather than fashion. There are too many stores selling the same merchandise, too much of too little. "Consumers are having trouble differentiating," says Peter J. Solomon, an investment banker who works closely with retailers and apparel designers. "What's the difference between a Limited and a Gap and a Saks Fifth Avenue...
NANCY KERRIGAN, 25, took a little more luster off her onetime image as America's sports sweetheart by getting engaged to her 40-year-old manager, JERRY SOLOMON. Kerrigan's mom broke the news that the Washington-based agent had presented Nancy with a ring (ice, of course) last month. Solomon, who separated from his first wife in 1993, has said in the past that he and the Olympic skating medalist drew closer after she was clubbed on the leg in January 1994. Wedding details are still unclear, but afterward they're probably not going to Disney World...
...comes from a good Irish family with all sorts of rules about spilled salts." Her family wards off plane crashes with a superstition inherited from one of her father's war buddies. Sitting on an airplane before take-off, McSweeney recites a line modified from the Song of Solomon, "Arise, my love, and fly again." As a child, her whole family would link hands and say this; now she mutters it under her breath when she flies alone. "I think it's embarrassing every now and again," she admits, but adds that she would not feel comfortable flying without reciting...
...giant salaries garnished with even more gigantic bonuses for star traders. Young, ambitious people like Leeson were swept up in the scavenger hunt for talent, and Barings was for the first time managing a new kind of moneyspinner. "Traders were made overnight," says Valerie Thompson, who traded securities for Solomon Brothers in London for 15 years and watched the change. "Managers did not have time to train them properly. Leeson picked up a little bit of knowledge and used it as a springboard into Barings. He must have thought, 'This is easy. This is Christmas come early...
...three more members of Congress--Rep. JohnDoolittle (R-Calif.), Rep. Michael Forbes (R-N.Y.)and Rep. Jerry Solomon (R-N.Y.)--have signed on asco-sponsors to the bill, Hardiman said yesterday...