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...with the famed comet due to begin its streak across the horizon in November, the hyping of Halley's is once again in full swing. At last count, 80 companies around the country were selling tens of thousands of items related to the celestial itinerant. Enterprising pitchmen are hawking comet coins, medals, travel bags, pendants, posters, glow-in-the-dark pencils, hair glitter and, in playful memory of visitations past, yogurt-flavored comet pills. More than three dozen books on Halley's compete for attention. Consumers can choose among Halley's T shirts, emblazoned with slogans such...
Burr's pulpit these days is an office at Newark Airport's North Terminal. On one side of the room, his windows overlook an arena-size lobby where thousands of passengers wait, eat, sleep and often grumble. Windows on the opposite wall face the runways, where People's jets streak skyward toward Los Angeles, London and 47 other destinations. Burr's office is bus-station Spartan, like his airline. In the place where a conventional executive's couch would sit, he has a row of three first-class seats from...
...armes--their orderly or spear carrier." The Italians have an enduringly bad con-science about Mussolini's colonial war against Libya and, to be sure, are concerned about 4,000 Italians living there today. West German leaders appear to have chosen to indulge the strong, barely dormant pacifist streak in the country...
After all, Hyundai's road trip is really just beginning. Despite its impressive winning streak, the company is still only the world's seventh largest carmaker, with 3.3 million vehicles sold globally, and that includes sales by its Kia subsidiary. But Chung has grand ambitions. "We will make ourselves an invincible competitor," he says. Hyundai's larger rivals should mark those words whenever they check their rearview mirror for overtaking traffic. --With reporting by Daren Fonda/New York and Frank Sikora/Montgomery
...brave," Leo, who is still paying off her mortgage, says today. "If people tell you that you can't see the boss, don't listen to them. You've got to be determined." Getting ahead is no easy task in Africa. It takes a plan, purpose and sometimes a streak of stubbornness. Those qualities are all present in the campaign to help end poverty in Africa that you've heard so much about lately. When the leaders of the rich G-8 countries - essentially the world's bank managers - meet in Scotland next month, everyone, from a pair of crusading...