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...delight. With games like skeeball, whack-a-mole and the claw, kids greedily collect the coveted green tickets which ultimately render cheap plastic totchkies. With just five wrinkled tickets, boys and girls can get sparkly geometric rulers, gold or silver sheriff badges or a plastic compass. For the more daring entrepreneur, a mini pool table or real set of walkie talkies can be won for a collection of 800 tickets-equivalent to about $80 in real money...
...Packard, Sharp and Philips, to make hand-held computers to its specifications. Following the huge success of the Palm Pilot, the tiny organizer that uses a plastic pen instead of a keyboard, Microsoft enlisted another eight manufacturers to make a competing version of a similar unit. "Everybody is in market-development mode at the moment,'' says Dilip Mistry, Windows CE manager for Microsoft's British subsidiary. "I don't think anybody is making money in this yet. It's all about investing to see what happens going forward...
...Harvard sophomore and her family, the benefits of plastic surgery outweighed the costs. In fact, Laura (name has been changed at student's request) says it was her father, who is generally careful with money, who first suggest- ed she have her nose redone...
...WIRE) GAINESVILLE, Fla.--Perhaps nothing left in our culture is sacred. Integrity. Authority. Justice. Respect. Compassion. Democracy. All of these once were held in high esteem by a majority of Americans, at least theoretically. But, today almost anyone with enough power and money can buy these items like plastic Buddha statues at a garage sale...
...Washington, D.C., Moore told Grove, "One day you'll run Intel." For the next two decades Moore shaped and polished Grove's thinking about everything from plastic packaging to Japanese trade. "He was," says Grove, "a father figure." In 1979 Grove became president, and when Moore stepped down as CEO of Intel in 1987, Grove stepped up. (At 68, Moore still works three days a week but probably not for the money: he holds close to $7 billion worth of Intel stock...