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...suing Microsoft for false advertising, while Ralph Nader becomes the latest to launch an investigation into the software giant's business practices (Netly News...
...knew that the how-to would be my niche," she says. Adds her friend, dealmaker Ronald Perelman, the Revlon mogul: "I put her right up there as one of the most dynamic entrepreneurs around. She's created a company and product around a life-style not dissimilar to Ralph Lauren's in fashion...
...chicken farmers complain that they are being unfairly singled out. "I don't think it's been proved yet," says Ralph Smith, whose family operates seven chicken houses on the Eastern Shore. "They're pointing fingers our way, but it's probably a combination of things." The poultry industry has already reacted angrily to calls for mandatory nutrient-management legislation, and followers of state politics predict it will use its clout in the legislature to fight any new restrictions. "Poultry farmers are a small voting bloc, and many don't make a lot of money, but the poultry industry...
...imminence of Underworld has been talked and written about for months. By now nearly everyone who cares about contemporary literary fiction has heard how DeLillo got the inspiration for the novel. Intrigued by the hubbub back in 1991 surrounding the 40th anniversary of Ralph Branca's fateful pitch and Bobby Thomson's subsequent home run--the so-called shot heard 'round the world that gave the New York Giants a playoff victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers and the National League championship--DeLillo went to the library and looked up on microfilm the front page of the New York Times...
...offer--for the Reagan Ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif.--all too many were able to refuse. The Western White House sat on the market for 13 months until the perfect buyer, one who can print money if he has to, showed an interest: Uncle Sam. Republican Congressman Ralph Regula of Ohio, chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee in charge of federal parks, is brokering a deal whereby Congress will appropriate $5 million and give it to California, which will in turn give it to the Reagans for the 100-year-old adobe house and grounds they paid...