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...Miccosukees have proved to be some of the quickest draws on the peninsula. This week President Clinton is scheduled to submit to Congress an $8 billion, 20-year plan to restore the Everglades, the most massive environmental project ever undertaken in the U.S. Native Americans are usually cast as p.r. decor during campaigns like this: the sad, silent Indians lamenting pollution on TV spots. But this time, Cypress is determined to "do something a lot of politicians and environmental groups don't always like Indians to do: speak." And win lawsuits. The tiny tribe has seized a leading role...
...transactions in January. The main reason is efficiency: it is becoming obvious that domestic mergers offer big commercial banks a fast way to reduce expenses before they take the more uncharted jump outside national borders. "There's a preference to start with domestic mergers first because they offer the quickest way to reduce excess capacity by cutting jobs," says Hendrikus Blommestein, acting head of the financial markets division of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. Jean-Pierre Danthine, a professor at the University of Lausanne, suggests an additional motive for the at-home trend in corporate behavior...
...Like the quickest kid in the hunt on Easter Sunday, many investors end up with a lot of eggs in one basket. It's not really their fault. The rapid rise of stock-based compensation at work is a primary culprit--and who's going to knock programs that grant stock options and otherwise stuff employee accounts with company shares through stock-purchase, profit-sharing and 401(k) plans? The problem is that many folks end up with their retirement dreams tethered to a single stock...
Artest's backcourt is one of the freshest and quickest in the nation, manned by rookies Barkley and Bootsy Thornton, like Francis a ju-co veteran. Bootsy, whose birth certificate reads Marvis, got his nickname when his mother named him after Parliament Funkadelic's Bootsy Collins...
...Artest's backcourt is one of the freshest and quickest in the nation, manned by rookies Barkley and Bootsy Thornton, like Francis a ju-co veteran. Bootsy, whose birth certificate reads Marvis, got his nickname when his mother named him after Parliament Funkadelic's Bootsy Collins...