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Weill knew he had really arrived last March when the stock of Travelers, which has risen in value some tenfold over the past decade, became part of the blue-chip 30-stock Dow Jones industrial average. Yet he figured he still lacked global reach. "The real growth opportunities in the financial business are going to come from the privatization of government-owned companies around the world and in emerging markets," Weill says. "Salomon gives us the platform to participate in that...
...trip; it's a rally," Cole said of the band's success. And the group's fruition has been more than helpful to the Squirrel Brand candy company as well: sales of the Nut Zipper bar have risen dramatically and continue to rise as the band gains fame. Speaking of the interaction between the band and the company, Cole said, "We have a really good, organic relationship. They load us up with mammoth amounts [of the candy], and we come back to visit the store whenever we have time...
Breathing on a ventilator, and without a drop of transfused blood flowing in his veins, Jackson gradually began to respond to the treatment. Within four days his blood count had risen significantly. Soon after, he was shaking his head in disbelief and telling his doctors, "If it wasn't for this, I wouldn't be here." It was around then that the first hospital called to ask whether Jackson was dead. With undisguised satisfaction, Shander told them, "He's not only not dead, but he's well and ready for discharge, and he'll soon be about his usual business...
Business is booming. In fiscal 1997, IRSA brought in profits of $31.4 million. The stock has risen from $27.50 for 10 units in December 1994 to $43 today. IRSA, which had assets of only $150,000 when Elsztain founded it, is now worth close to $500 million. And future growth prospects seem as promising as the wanton look in a tango dancer's eye. --Reported by Uki Goni/Buenos Aires...
...obsession that would have impressed Captain Ahab. His name was not Eugene Mallon, as he had conned the French villagers into believing. Nor was he a British writer who had settled in remotest France for quiet inspiration. He was an American fugitive named Ira Einhorn, a man who had risen to fame during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a counterculture guru. Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were friends, logically enough. But so was an unlikely battalion of bluebloods, millionaires and corporate executives, many of them so charmed by Einhorn's New Age vision that they stood...