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...family retreat in Kennebunkport, Me., George Bush walked a fine line between the determined vacationer, zipping about in his fuel-guzzling speedboat, and the grim-faced Commander in Chief facing the greatest challenge of his presidency. Bush ordered the first call-up of reserves since Vietnam and approved the sale of more F-15 fighters to Saudi Arabia. He declared that in the face-off with Saddam nothing less than America's "way of life" was at stake. He abandoned his earlier fastidiousness about how to describe the thousands of Western civilians, including 3,000 Americans, held by Saddam...
Going from Klein to Lauder, says industry observer Alan Mottus, "is the difference between turning around a speedboat and turning around a tanker." Carol Phillips, who virtually invented the money machine known as Clinique, notes that "she must deal with the baggage of years of company success and go through the line with a butcher knife, tailoring and trimming...
...helicopters suddenly appeared overhead at 6:30 a.m., one sentry ran to alert Escobar and others, while bodyguards opened fire with semiautomatic rifles. Escobar slipped away by running through a patch of wild cane, scuttling across a creek with planks laid over it and, finally, jumping into a speedboat and disappearing. A wide-scale ground and helicopter search failed to turn up Escobar, who is included on the U.S. Justice Department's list of the twelve most wanted Colombian drug traffickers...
...like a personal computer, but it acts more like a powerful mainframe. Says Charles Boesenberg, executive vice president of MIPS Computer Systems, one of the many players in the fiercely competitive workstation market: "What we've done is put the power and capability of an ocean liner into a speedboat...
...freighter of the future will skim across the water at nearly 60 m.p.h., as fast as Don Johnson's speedboat in Miami Vice. But the craft will be 265 ft. long and carry as much as 1,000 tons of cargo. Last week the Japanese government decided to develop such a freighter for commerce between Japan and its Asian neighbors...