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...primary's winner is virtually guaranteed election in November, since even Cambridge Republican Committee Chair David L.K. Trumbull called the 27th District "probably the worst seat for a Republican...
What's the Kiewit connection? The employee-owned Kiewit began investing in its Omaha neighbor, MFS, in 1986, correctly anticipating the deregulation of the telecommunications industry. Kiewit then spun off its 40 million shares of MFS to employees last year. The biggest winner was Kiewit CEO Walter Scott Jr., whose 16 million shares of MFS were worth around $750 million as a result of the WorldCom merger...
Remarkably, PepsiCo ably demonstrates how much gold there is in being the eternal silver-medal winner. The company is still a veritable junk-food juggernaut that includes Frito-Lay, which dominates the salty-snack industry the way you-know-who does soft drinks. There are also the fast-food restaurants Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC, a division that is on the rebound. The entire company brought in revenues of $30 billion and profits of $1.99 billion in 1995. The stock, which recently split, increased some 70% last year...
...Hughie is dead now, so Erie elegizes a man he thought brought him luck. Like most elegies, this one is about the mourner. Erie needs a new lucky charm. If he can connect with this clerk--turn their parallel monologues into a dialogue--the gambler might be a winner again...
RECOVERING. EMERSON FITTIPALDI, 49, two-time Indy 500 winner, after surgery to correct a broken bone in his neck suffered when he crashed into a wall at the Marlboro 500 in Michigan. Doctors say he can resume racing, but Fittipaldi thinks otherwise: "I had a message from the Lord...It looks like I'm not going to race again...