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...called Interstate Stores, was wallowing in bankruptcy proceedings, and its stock was selling for as low as 12.5 cents. Today a share of the resurgent toy-store chain goes for more than $38, a 300- fold increase. Windfalls can also be made from convalescing companies like LTV, the giant steel firm that is still reorganizing under Chapter 11 protection but has made strides toward renewed profitability. This year the price of LTV bonds maturing in 2003 has nearly tripled, from 11% of face value...
Colino found in Intelsat a loosely monitored, trusting organization. He apparently spotted an opportunity in the construction of Intelsat's ostentatious glass-and-steel headquarters building in northwest Washington. Only one-third of the 600,000-sq.-ft. edifice was being built when Colino took office in January 1984. That spring he suggested to Intelsat's 28-member board of governors that the last two phases of the building's construction be consolidated into one. Then, according to court papers, Colino connived with William P. Lipscomb Co., an Arlington, Va., construction firm, promising to award it the new contract...
...snapped the top off John Quincy Adams' Ulmus americana, and one of these years there will have to be last rites for the great elm. Full honors are due: it has been a sentinel for 161 years. An Andrew Jackson Magnolia grandiflora has rotted out, and not even the steel reinforcement rods may be enough to hold it in shape for many more months. When the time comes, sound taps for a 150-year veteran. But be not despairing. Its twin is still healthy and firmly rooted by the south entrance to the White House, and its branches reach...
...Cuba is, after all, a decidedly Caribbean island of gaiety and light. On balmy nights, the sound of rumbas pulses through Coppelia, the central park, where brightly dressed teenagers strut around in love or else in search of it. On a brilliant Sunday afternoon in spacious Lenin Park, a steel band lays down a lilting beat and khaki- uniformed officials wave their caps in time to the music. Yet beneath the infectious island rhythms, there is a sad, steady whisper. "If there were no sea between us and the U.S.," says a musician under his breath, "this place would...
...quality: one section of the building resembles some enormous otherworldly blimp, the other calls to mind a high-tech samurai helmet. But unlike the slicker gimmicky UFO architecture (Kurokawa's earlier work, for instance), Maki's gym is restrained and sober, a mature fantasy. The flawless, parabolic stainless-steel skin is 1.6 acres in size but just about one-sixtieth of an inch thick...