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...straightened but in parts was still lined by ditches and fruit trees. We looked for the valley where the hospital train had been shelled and, halfway through our journey, came on a place I thought resembled it: the railway track was there, though the slope was not nearly as steep as my child's memory had recorded. Other landmarks from the past must have been there; I spotted none but nonetheless felt oddly content just to be on the road I had first traveled so long...
...main reason is that lenders and potential partners worry that the company could be caught in an auto-industry downturn that would slash profits and the value of their investments. Chrysler recently reported first-quarter earnings of $592 million, down a steep 36% from the same period a year ago. Further declines in business could hit Chrysler particularly hard under the plan advanced by Kerkorian, which would load up the company with $10.7 billion of new debt while draining $5 billion from its $7.5 billion of cash reserves to help pay for the buyout. Chrysler has done its part...
...week's end, many guesses and questions shrouded the negotiations. The two companies were insisting that "there is no assurance an agreement will be reached." But if the deal does fly, Matsushita will have escaped from a nettlesome marriage, though at a steep price (about a 35% loss on the original investment, owing mostly to the weakness of the dollar vs. the yen). And Bronfman, the wandering son who officially took over the family business only last year, will invest his shareholders' money so he can realize his dream. He will ascend from mere billionaire status to a more glamorous...
...bookish room. In another corner of the stage, a third figure becomes apparent. Bald and stocky, this figure (John Sharian) represents at various points a demon, Ward's grandfather, and a cyborg. He even barks to out of site vampires. The characters vie for attention in the small, steep theater which only seats 27 people...
John Simpson went in for surgery to remove a kidney stone, only to have doctors find that it had disappeared: he credits a prayer wheel of more than 3,000 people that his wife, a Charismatic, organized. Leslie Smith recalls hurtling down a steep hill on her bike when she was seven years old. She began to slip off the seat--and felt hands lift her back up onto the bike. Dorothy Pederson, the most skeptical in the room, believes a miracle saved her husband's life after a brutal mugging in a hotel room seven years ago. John Lashley...