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...When toy-truck maker Tonka bought Kenner Parker Toys in 1987, the company added such venerable products as Monopoly and Play-Doh to its lineup. But Tonka, the third largest U.S. toymaker, also took on a staggering debt from the $674 million sale. The Minnesota-based company's burdens grew worse with the recession, which coincided with a dearth of successful new Tonka products. Last week the toymaker decided to seek help from the big kid on the block. Hasbro (1990 sales: more than $1 billion), the largest U.S. toymaker, will acquire Tonka's stock and debt in a deal...
Schwarzkopf reeled off impressive figures last week: 33 of 36 bridges hit on the supply lines between Iraq and Kuwait; truck traffic on the main Baghdad- to-Kuwait City road reduced to 10% of normal. But one or two of his claims might raise a skeptical eyebrow. The number of sorties flown against bridges divided by the number of bridges hit works out to almost 24 sorties per damaged bridge, which seems to indicate that a lot of "precision-guided" bombs and missiles are missing. Again, Schwarzkopf's estimate that the quantity of supplies reaching the Iraqi troops in Kuwait...
...life, which he departed in December at the age of 92, Hammer was a textbook case of furor Americanus: a bullying blowhard with an ego like a Mack truck, whose main aim was to parlay a genius for negotiation (which he had) into a Nobel Peace Prize (which, luckily for the prestige of that award, he never got). His career as humanitarian and Maecenas was loud, insubstantial and based on hype, although he did do one good thing for the National Gallery in Washington by giving it a major collection of old masters drawings, many bought with the advice...
...selling anything. Times couldn't be worse," said Robert Lutz, the blunt-spoken president of Chrysler. "The only people buying are those with 90,000 miles on their cars or people who have had their cars stolen or burned." Concurs his colleague John Rock, general manager of the GMC truck division: "Everybody's in neutral and idling...
...aerial search for Scud missiles that could be fired from hard-to-locate mobile launchers. Most if not all the Scuds launched from fixed sites -- that is, silos -- were believed to have been taken out in the first attack. Within hours, American planes had destroyed six of the truck launchers, three with missiles inside. One other Scud missile had been launched earlier against Saudi Arabia, but was blown up in midair by a Patriot antimissile missile. That was another technological triumph, the first known time that an attack missile had been destroyed by a defensive missile in combat...