While no one tracks reverse mergers, a half-dozen companies from the Middle Kingdom--ranging from health care products to manufacturers of power-steering assemblies (see table, p. 44)--havecompleted them since last year.

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Anheuser-Busch's board is, by today's corporate governance standards, a fairly clubby bunch--including executives on whose boards Busch III sits, the in-house p.r. adviser and a first cousin who evidently helped him in the power grab in 1975.

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Anheuser-Busch's board is, by today's corporate governance standards, a fairly clubby bunch--including fellow executives on whose boards Busch III sits, the in-house p.r. adviser and a first cousin who evidently helped him in the power grab in 1975.

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At Smiley's, you get a 750hp dirt dragster that has about the highest power-to-weight ratio of anything this side of a fighter jet (see box, p. 153).

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