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...Operating from offices in Manhattan's Burlington House, he runs a maze of companies (he has 19 in Brazil alone). His flagship firm, National Bulk Carriers, operates one of the world's largest private fleets of huge supertankers and cargo ships. He is also proprietor of an array of global enterprises, which include the Princess hotel chain in Mexico, the Bahamas and Bermuda, oil refineries and a number of savings and loan associations...
Flea markets are flourishing partly because they seldom charge taxes. Barter clubs are also springing up fast, particularly in the West. The clubs offer swap deals on a vast array of goods and issue checks" for services. A gynecologist, for example, may cash his "check" with a mortician. The members of the clubs claim that their transactions do not represent sales and thus are not subject to taxes...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, is the gray eminence of Mass Hall. Steiner's job is to command Harvard's array of lawyers in their skirmishes with the local community, the federal government, and occasionally each other--different branches of the University sometime become entangled with each other, abetted by Harvard's "each tub on its own bottom" policy, which dictates sufficient. But Steiner also serves as Mass that each branch of the University be self-Hall's "eyes and ears;" during the South Africa protests, while Bok was swamped by students, he strolled unassailed among them...
...corrupt regime, both estimates, however, appeared surprisingly low. Most valuations of the dynasty's holdings were between $500 million and $1 billion; they included Nicaragua's national air line, Lanica, its major shipping company, the Mamenic Line, perhaps 25% of its best farm land, and an array of other enterprises. Says Richard Millett, author of The Guardians of the Dynasty, a highly critical account of the Somoza family: "It was hard to find any aspect of the economy in which they were not deeply entrenched...
Despite the influx of new oil money, Mexico continues to be plagued by a formidable array of economic and social problems. The gap between the rich few and the poor masses seems to be increasing. Inflation is running at 16% annually, and nearly half of the country's 18 million workers are totally or partly unemployed. Mexico's population (currently 67 mil lion) is growing at an annual rate of 3% and might reach some 100 million by the year 2000. For millions of Mexico's landless peasants, illiteracy, disease and malnutrition are chronic problems...