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...shopping spree for consumer-products firms may be only beginning. Investors are already driving up the stock prices of a host of potential targets, including General Mills, Pillsbury and Quaker Oats. Speculation now centers on Beatrice, the Chicago-based producer of Tropicana orange juice and La Choy Chinese food. Beatrice stock jumped 3 1/8 a share last week, to close at 39 1/4. One reason: Unilever is rumored to be eyeing Beatrice after seeing Richardson-Vicks slip away...
...belie and then reinforce his harrowing depiction of a man obsessed with self-hatred. He rockets around the stage with the febrile energy of a revivalist on skid row, but his every assertion is tinged with mockery. Although he claims to have seen the light, he is on a spree of destruction, not salvation. He wants to deprive his pals of their last shred of dignity, their dreams of resurrecting the past. Hickey was always a sometime drunk, still connected to the world of work and family. As he sees himself slipping, he tries to take everyone with...
Many experts blame affluent individuals like Chambre for much of the borrowing spree. "The coming of age of the baby boomers," says Henry Kaufman, chief economist for Wall Street's Salomon Brothers, "is altering the relationship between consumer credit and income, reflecting this group's greater acceptance of credit." Terry Blaney, president of Houston's Consumer Credit Counseling Service, is blunt: "We have a whole generation of people who have been raised with high expectations. Couple that with all the advertising we see, and you've got a lot of materialistic people. There has to be an adjustment in attitude...
Ready or not, here they come. Clutching their Vuitton luggage and checking their Cartier Panthere wristwatches, wealthy foreigners are lining up with their less fortunate countrymen at U.S. Immigration desks. The new arrivals are not jet-setters here for a month-long shopping spree or speculators merely stopping off to tuck away foreign currency in U.S. investments. They are ambitious entrepreneurs and professionals ready to catch the go-go spirit, to buy homes and consider citizenship in the nation that, for the present at least, offers them attractive business opportunities and an amenable society. "Ten years ago, everything was based...
...week of reunions and Commencement is the second busiest of the year for most of the restaurants, stores, and hotels near the University, just behind Christmas week, which traditionally heralds the biggest buying spree across the nation...