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...this year. By pumping up the economy, the deficit encourages spending on imports. At the same time, the federal red ink helps keep interest rates high, which discourages investment in the plants and equipment needed to produce American goods that could be exported or substituted for imports. Says Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn: "Whatever we do on trade is a sham, a complete waste of time, unless we begin to tackle the budget deficit...
...central character is Paul (William Converse-Roberts), a young, success-driven banker. We see him making connections at cocktail parties, bad-mouthing fellow-workers to his boss and jetting to exotic lands to work out deals. His significant other, Fran (Alice Manning), is just as stereotypical (but then, don't they always come in twos). She feels her pink-collar job as a graphics artist fails to stimulate her intellect and is unsatisfied with her romantic life. So Fran sleeps with...Peter (Peter Crombie), Paul's old '60s throwback friend, who at least talks of the old idealism even...
...main problem with this play is the script. To say it's inane would be an understatement. Paul, the banker, is accused of not producing, of being a mere paper-mill. Does this symbol for an age offer the remotest response? Forget it. An unsavory type whom you can be sure Paul doesn't meet at Le Cirque confronts this modern success story by questioning the meaning of his life if there is nothing he is willing to die for. Does Paul put up at least an inarticulate defense for the lightness of his being? No time; a blackout...
...much by a series of executives as by a dynasty of merchant-rulers. Now the succession has taken its strangest turn. Instead of drawing from the small Scottish knot of the founders' families, Jardine Matheson has announced that Brian Powers, 38, a former New York investment banker, will become its first American taipan...
...Powers graduated from Yale, where he played football, and got a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1974. He began his career with the blue- chip Manhattan law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton, then worked as a money manager for the Ford Foundation and as an investment banker for James D. Wolfensohn Inc. At Wolfensohn, Powers put together several deals for Simon Keswick, the outgoing taipan...