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...goes to a supermarket to seek investment advice, but some shoppers can find a hot tip in the freezer department. "Scoop up our stock," reads the message on cartons of Ben & Jerry's ice cream. Customers are invited to call a toll-free number for a preliminary prospectus on a new issue of 500,000 shares of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc. Expected share price...
...downturn already rivals the depressions that have struck car-and steelmakers in recent years. Some 64,000 semiconductor employees have been laid off in the past ten months, a toll that equals 19% of the industry's U.S. work force. The top five chip producers, including Intel, Motorola and Advanced Micro Devices, lost a total of $195 million in the quarter ending in September, and the red ink keeps flowing...
...TIME's deputy chief of correspondents. Already up and around at 6 a.m. in his New York City apartment, Mader dispatched Caribbean Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich to Colombia, then quickly ascertained that TIME's Tom Quinn, who works out of Bogotá, was already on the story. As the death toll mounted, Mader decided to send Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who was covering Halley's comet, to Bogotá to join the TIME team. Unlike Mexico City immediately after its earthquake, Bogotá had a functioning airport and telex and telephone lines were intact. Still, to get to the Nevado...
...merchant bankers, students, artists, gamblers and tourists, move between Australia and China each year; if Hong Kong is included, the figure almost doubles. China's rise is easing Australia's isolation, putting it close to one of the hubs of the world economy. But it is also taking a toll: last year, for example, China used an extra million barrels of oil a day, helping drive up prices - and making for a lot of grumpy Australian motorists...
...everyone all the time, but you need to have a business model that's sustainable in the face of a growing China." From his office, Ian Campbell looks out on a vista of marooned shipping containers and the rusting industrial landscape of western Melbourne. Tariff cuts have taken a toll, to be sure, but most heavyweight manufacturers have decamped for China, leaving the country's industrial and engineering heartland as a distribution hub and home to small, parochial players. If you want to get the friendly Campbell really riled, ask him about bilateral trade deals. "I just want...