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...responded to that imperative with some of the world's fastest products and services, ranging from frozen food to instant bank loans. Like Domino's Pizza, many U.S. corporate empires were built for people in a hurry: McDonald's, Federal Express, Polaroid and Southland Corp., the operator of 7-Eleven stores. "America values speed," observes Felipe Castro, assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. "The more you hustle, the more money you can make...
...years ago to $8 billion today. Betancur also had limited success in halting terrorist conflicts, which have claimed more than 2,000 lives since 1983. Around 100 hostages died last November when the army stormed the Bogota Palace of Justice after it was seized by guerrillas. Among the dead: eleven Justices of Colombia's 24-member Supreme Court...
...while the accident's cause is sought. Most American companies seem willing to wait out the shuttle's return. Hughes Communications, a subsidiary of the largest private American satellite maker, has sent one launch to Arianespace but has committed some $500 million for the use of NASA facilities, including eleven projects over the next five years. Says the company's president, Steven Dorfman: "I want to launch all our systems on the shuttle. It would be potentially disastrous to the communications-satell ite business if NASA no longer were permitted to launch them...
...what comes of self-reliance. It's a pity. They are excellent specialists and could have been of much more help." Replied Gale, whose group assisted in 13 of the 19 bone-marrow transplants that were administered to the sickest victims: "We have worked together very successfully." However, eleven patients who underwent the risky marrow transplants have reportedly died...
...United Nations encampment two miles inside Thailand last week, when the shells began to come in. "I heard a long whistle in the sky--then boom!" she said later. Sad Rod was one of 59 Khmer Rouge refugees wounded, and her four-year-old daughter was among eleven people killed, in an unusually savage attack by Vietnamese forces inside Kampuchea...