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...dollar comes down from its recent flight of fancy, will the fall be dangerously fast? Only a month ago, the currency was rising so relentlessly that economists were concerned that its strength would worsen the trade deficit by making U.S. exports too costly. That fear seemed misplaced last week as the dollar plunged to a level some 7.5% below its mid-June highs, closing the week at 1.87 deutsche marks...
What was Gorbylove in West Germany was more a case of Gorbylike in France. Ever the skeptics, Parisians welcomed the Soviet leader for the second time in four years but failed to shower him with the kind of ecstatic hero worship he received a month ago in Bonn. During a curiously muted three-day visit, French commentators noted, Mikhail Gorbachev disappointed "a lot of people who were just waiting to become admirers...
Like the Land of Oz, technology has good and bad witches. The bomb is a bad witch, microsurgery a good one. Not so long ago, electricity was firmly in the benign category. After all, it delivers energy with great reliability and little expense. So essential has electricity become that more than 2 million miles of power lines, literally huge extension cords, criss-cross the U.S. But nowadays many Americans are increasingly fearful that the electric and magnetic fields generated by such overhead cables pose a serious threat to human health, causing everything from learning disorders to cancer...
...company's offerings are decidedly casual but with a note of sophistication. Arthur Cinader, 61, J. Crew's chairman, describes the J. Crew look as "understated flair." Cinader, whose family-owned firm operates a clothing-and-furnishings catalog business called Popular Club Plan, started J. Crew six years ago and had an almost instant...
TWEEDS. Since its first catalog was shipped less than two years ago, Tweeds has become the spunky and surprisingly successful upstart in the crowd. Estimated revenues for the current fiscal year: $37 million. Compared with its rivals, Tweeds' offerings are typically funkier, looser-fitting and more cosmopolitan, "classics with a European twist," as Tweeds President Jeff Aschkenes, 46, puts it. Many outfits are made of linen, this year's trendy fabric, and come in offbeat colors. Examples: pleated, prewashed linen trousers ($59) available in Moroccan brown, sage, cadet or flax; and cotton- Lycra pants ($29) in the colors...