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...pages. He is also making that copper work closely with its successor: hair-thin fiber-optic cables that offer vastly expanded speed and capacity--which translates to consumer value and, he hopes, corporate profit. Seidenberg, who oversaw NYNEX's merger with Bell Atlantic two years ago, has risen to the top not because he knows how to splice phone lines but because he knows how to splice phone companies...
...made." Gone are the days when Blockbuster would send 1 in 5 shoppers home empty-handed while leaving scores of others disappointed. Worldwide rental revenues at stores open more than a year were up 13.3% in the second quarter. A year ago, they had slipped 3%. Active memberships have risen 7%, and internal customer-satisfaction surveys have rebounded to an all-time high...
...immunity against injury. Centerfielder Bernie Williams, shortstop Derek Jeter and relief pitcher Mariano Rivera, the team's three best and most reliable players, have all spent time on the disabled list this season. But like members of some impassioned guerrilla army, as each man has fallen, another has risen in his place. It is to this fungibility of parts that one must attribute their astonishing record of 68-23 through their first 91 games, for a winning percentage of .747. That pace, if sustained, would put them in reach of the winningest team ever: the 1906 Cubs, who finished...
Since IMAX went public in June 1994, its stock price has risen from about $6.75 a share to $29 in March before settling at about $22. That makes the company worth around $650 million. The two co-bosses took advantage of that upturn to sell 100,000 shares each recently, but analysts still see IMAX as a coming attraction. "It's a very undervalued company," says senior analyst Steven Bernard at Everen Securities. "We don't think it's well known on Wall Street...
...were ranked 1, 2 and 3. On Monday nights, the two rival wrestling organizations--the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling--have shows on at the same time, the former on the USA Network, the latter on TNT. In the past year, the shows' combined Nielsen ratings have risen some 50%, and together they are watched in more than 6 million households. Larry King's audience is about a fifth that size. Taking all telecasts into account, about 34 million people watch wrestling each week...