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...TRUMP TAMER Switching from gabbing to grabbing, former talk-show host Merv Griffin outmaneuvered developer Donald Trump for control of Resorts International, the Atlantic City hotel-and-gambling company. The megarich Merv paid $364 million...
...particular types of customers, from trend-happy adolescents to conservative executives. The fastest-growing brand of sportswear in the U.S. is The Limited chain's Outback Red, which sold more than $400 million last year. It began as a collection of Australian-inspired bush-country wear, and now features tamer English staples like jodhpurs and cable-knit sweaters. At Macy's, which sells an estimated 50 house brands, the Aeropostale line evokes the garb of 1920s French mail-plane pilots. The collection includes white silk scarves and rugged corduroy trousers. Macy's also offers a line of casual wear whose...
...road, the Red Raiders are a tamer bunch. Look for Vermont to try to outskate...
...claimed she was an author wronged: her literary agent submitted the proposal without her final approval. "Of course, Joan approved it," says Braden's agent. "She's just getting cold feet." Braden does not deny the incidents in the manuscript. But they may be blue-penciled from a presumably tamer version she is planning with her husband as collaborator...
...went through one of its deepest economic slumps since the Great Depression, as well as its second longest peacetime boom in modern times. Volcker shares in the blame -- and credit -- for both those cycles, but one major accomplishment was virtually all his own. He was the valiant tamer of U.S. inflation, the tightfisted money manager who stopped one of the worst price spirals in this century and made it bearable once again for Americans to go to supermarkets and shopping malls. But that was not the only reason moneymen around the world slept more restfully knowing Volcker was in charge...