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...London's fashionable Harrods department store, he owns the Ritz Hotel of Paris, the British humor magazine Punch, the Fulham soccer club and a $32 million, 190-ft. yacht. The senior Al Fayed also holds a long-term lease on the Paris villa that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor lived in after the duke abdicated the British throne to marry a commoner. Al Fayed has spent $40 million restoring the villa and its contents, although he announced that Sotheby's auction house will be selling 40,000 items from it. Al Fayed's brother owns the elite British clothier...
...betrothed and flashing a sapphire ring and a $440,000 breach-of-contract and fraud suit. Diana's future wedded abode was hotly debated: Would it be Julie Andrews' former Malibu home, reportedly just purchased by Dodi, or the Paris love nest of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, now owned by the father-in-law-to-be? No word yet on a honeymoon site...
...barely socialized young computer geeks--has moved beyond the studied informality of "business casual" to truly casual. Inside the Washington Beltway, meanwhile, people still swim through swamplike summer heat and humidity wearing dark wool suits and damp white shirts, their air supply constricted by a tight Windsor knot...
...Ricci 2 (Windsor, Milvihill...
...board ruled that Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, must work with organized labor for the first time in its 35-year history. In pursuing unions as corporate bogeymen, Wal-Mart at last overstepped its reach. Even though a vote last May on unionization at the company's Windsor, Ontario store failed 151-43, the result was deemed "meaningless" by the board since company officials had implied that they would close the branch if the vote passed. Ed Gould, a spokesman for Wal-Mart Canada, says that Wal-Mart stands firm in its belief that the vote accurately reflected...