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...brownstones and boutiques, my first impression was that I had stumbled into the backroom of an unkempt--but uppercrust--Kinney's shoe store. Behind me was an enormous cut-glass, iron trellised, oak door; tumbling up to the ceiling on my left and right was a staggered tier of oak shelves, randomly crowded with shoes. Two clues that it wasn't Kinney's: the shoes, chunked with ice and vaguely steaming socky odor, were obviously not for sale; plus, the oak door, creaking shut behind me, was gilt with the words "International Society for Krishna Consciousness...
...military cowboys running their own foreign policy out of the Cabinet Office is too absurd to contemplate." On the Continent, a widespread feeling exists that if anything like Iranscam were uncovered, it would not have the same paralyzing repercussions. Throughout much of Europe, especially across the Latin, Catholic southern tier, there is greater cynicism about political conduct...
...independence of some of its members. While MCC companies all want to share in the fruits of the consortium's research, they do not want to give competitors an edge. Says Drew Peck, who follows electronics companies for the Gartner Group: "Member firms are reluctant to assign their first-tier researchers to MCC. To them, sharing their research talent and resources with competitors is considered an unnatural act." But that is exactly what U.S. companies may have to do to best their Japanese rivals...
...went on to play Tier II Junior League hockey in his last years of high school before coming to Harvard. Some of his teammates from his Junior League squad now play college hockey in the United States--including the present captains of Vermont and St. Lawrence and the co-captains of Clarkson...
...amount of cash that Drexel has raised through junk bonds has zoomed from $839 million in 1981 to $13 billion so far this year. Fees from those securities helped catapult Drexel from a second-tier investment house, ranked eleventh in 1978, to one of the three or four most powerful firms on Wall Street. Drexel's 1986 revenues will reach an estimated $6 billion, up from $4 billion last year. Milken has prospered even more stunningly. By far the most highly compensated Drexel employee, Milken, now 40, has amassed a fortune, estimated at more than $500 million. Yet Drexel...