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...imitations earlier models used. It is the first luxury car in years that GM execs can truly call world class. At a $34,975 base price, it isn't cheap, but with Japanese and German competitors priced at as much as $8,500 more, the Seville is a relative bargain...
...clothing chain. Last week the charge-card giant ceased doing business with the retailer, accusing Laura Ashley of persuading customers to use other cards. As a result, the 520 Ashley stores around the world have had to stop accepting Amex charges. Ashley had been trying for some time to bargain down the fees it pays for purchases on the card. The bicker exploded into a brawl when a shopper, who turned out to be an American Express executive, was discouraged from using her card at an Ashley store in New Jersey...
That is a bargain price for many Muscovites, who are flooding into the provinces to do their shopping. Annoyed at the sudden influx from neighboring regions, officials in Krasnodar set up customs posts on roads out of the territory and instructed local authorities to search visitors passing and to confiscate meat, butter and other scarce supplies. The government in Moscow ordered the draconian measures to cease...
...think you should pause before spurning the safety of a savings account or Treasury bill just because rates are low. Stocks are no bargain (though some fire-sale real estate may be). And I think that Albert Einstein, if not Marilyn Monroe, is likely to loom as large 1,000 years from now as Van Gogh. So given the choice between a little piece of Einstein for $15,000 or a work by Van Gogh for $15 million (and given $15 million), I would opt for the Einstein, spend a further $28 on socks (to give the economy a little...
...role he had played in securing the captives' release. As the point man of U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar's seven-month campaign to resolve the hostage crisis, Picco had engaged in a series of daunting covert missions to Shi'ite strongholds in Lebanon to bargain with the captors. At times he disappeared from sight for days...