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...bodyguard further claims that he protested against the single-car, rear-door getaway scheme but that Dodi had told him, "I just spoke to my father on the phone. He approved the plan." Wingfield also told the judge that he had quit because Mohammed al Fayed was pressing him to support his conspiracy theories. Al Fayed has turned angrily against the two men, whom he now blames for losing his son and Diana. "I am not on good terms with them," he told TIME. "I didn't want them to leave, because the investigation is still running and I need...
...among, is a VHS vs. Betamax-type standards war brewing? Could be. Some electronics companies are lining up behind one or another product, although many say they will probably sell them all. Other standard setters, such as Panasonic, don't sell any in the U.S. yet. For any recording scheme to go mainstream, it will have to get even cheaper and simpler, according to Chris Muratore, an analyst at Soundata, Inc., a market-research firm based in Hartsdale, N.Y. But there's clearly an appetite for recordable-music formats. According to Muratore's research, more than 90% of music buyers...
Needless to say, Sissel sees her father's manipulative tendencies all over this proposed business scheme, and she emphatically disapproves. But as Joey becomes more and more involved in his work, she draws further away, choosing to take a job at a local sugar factory rather than wait for him at home. Their relationship deteriorates to the point that conversation becomes more painful than meaningless sex, and an inevitably passive confrontation over their situation looms just in the distance...
...kidnapping scheme, in the meantime, ran into difficulties. For one thing, the services lost track of Mladic, who is believed to have left the country. The planning then focused on Karadzic. But there were repeated delays. "It's an extremely complicated job of intelligence gathering and military preparation," says a French official. "You need just the right opportunity to carry...
...they helped McDonald's with its Big Xtra burger campaign (the Whopperlike 4.5-oz. lettuce-and-tomato burger debuted in Des Moines in January and is being tested in 10% of the chain's U.S. restaurants), and they had a role in Pepsi's decision to change the color scheme on its cans...