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...ride from the library to my temporary residence in the safer, north section of Bogotá takes about 45 minutes. On the radio, a news anchor announces that the Colombian soccer team has advanced into the semifinals versus an upstart Honduras squad in the Cup of Peace, the tournament’s nickname...
...expands, JetBlue will have to prove that it can indeed cross flight paths with major carriers that have already helped ground newcomers from People Express to Pro Air. If JetBlue's philosophy of improving service, simplifying pricing and treating customers as if they mattered can make it there, the upstart New Yorker should make it anywhere...
...first 12 Masters of the Universe--including He-Man, Man-at-Arms and the evil Skeletor ($10-$25 each)--has all but disappeared from the shelves of J.C. Penney and Toys "R" Us since Mattel re-released them. Demand in the U.S. for replicas of Transformers, among them the upstart Hot Rod ($45) and the diabolical pistol Megatron ($90-$110), has prompted importers to buy them off the shelves in Honshu and sell them to retail stores in U.S. malls. Takara, their maker, will be unleashing more in August, including Transformer F-15 Starscream and ambulance Ratchet. A new line...
...even at that optimistic pace the measure may be rendered moot before it's law. SunAmerica, a financial-services giant with $142 billion of managed assets (though a relative upstart in the area of 401(k) plans) is sure to make a splash with its application last month for an exemption that would allow it to bring a third-party adviser to the plans it administers. I'm told that Labor is looking favorably on the prohibited-transaction exemption and could approve it by September...
Certainly tech stocks were no slam dunk in the '50s, when transistors replaced the vacuum tube, or in the '60s, when microchips supplanted simple transistors. Those developments gave rise to the upstart Intel, while the shares of companies like Transitron Electronics melted away...