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Banana pricing wars also took a toll, but even more telling, the company ran up its long-term debt so that cash payments for interest charges spiraled from $52.6 million in 1990 to $164.3 million in 1993. Even if Chiquita sales had reached the level the WTO said they would have in the absence of European restrictive policies, the company still would have recorded losses or, at best, a marginal profit. As a Wall Street investment analyst who tracked the banana industry put it in 1992, "we have serious doubts about the abilities of management to deal with the company...
WEIGHT WOES A study in the journal Pediatrics reveals that being overweight begins to take an emotional toll on adolescents at about the time that peer pressure starts to overtake family influence. At ages 9 and 10, obese and nonobese kids show no difference in self-esteem. But by 13 and 14, overweight youths tend to exhibit lower self-worth, especially white and Hispanic girls. Such youngsters are more likely to drink and smoke too. Experts urge parents to instill good eating habits in kids early and to stress that people don't normally look like models...
...online shoppers' visits to an e-merchant: the point at which they have identified the product they want to buy but haven't completed the transaction. Some stay. Some bolt. A little hand holding can help reduce the chance of a cut-and-run considerably. First tip: Post a toll-free number, and staff the phones. Ken Seiff, CEO of Bluefly.com which sells discount designer apparel (big holiday seller: $79 pashmina scarves), attributes his company's favorable traffic-to-sales ratio to having enough live customer-service reps (70 during the busiest December weeks, up from just four in September...
...when it comes right down to it, unnecessary treatment to find a few more cases of cervical cancer? Shouldn't health officials focus instead on making sure that more women undergo regular Pap-smear examinations? After all, Pap smears, though far from perfect, have helped dramatically lower the death toll from cervical cancer--taking it from the No. 1 cause of death due to cancer in American women to the 10th...
This is not, of course, to say that violent movies cannot be good ones. But good violent movies win over the viewer by matching the visceral intensity of head-hacking with solid emotional substance. Unlike Ying Zheng, who exacts a bloody toll of thousands and still succeeds in fulfilling his ambition, The Emperor and The Assassin exacts its toll--without, sadly, achieving similar greatness...