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...Rubin emerged having promised nothing -- and said everything. "The U.S. is being quite candid," says TIME business correspondent Bernard Baumohl. "Japan must do something to revive their economy." What the U.S. has in mind are not only long-term structural reforms but a very simple short-term Keynesian solution of government spending and tax cuts. But despite repeated promises by Prime Minister Hashimoto, Japan's government has been frustratingly slow...
...early business was crunching financial data for agencies like the Social Security Administration. But with welfare reform, more work is opening up for private companies than ever before, setting off a welfare-management gold rush. "It's a huge revenue target for the private sector to go after," says Bernard Picchi, an analyst of growth stocks for Lehman Brothers, who estimates the potential market at more than $20 billion a year. Private firms have also been assigned the kind of front-line, person-to-person tasks they have not had in the past. In Milwaukee, Wis., Maximus has been given...
...Bernard Baumohl. Reported by Marc Hequet/St. Paul
OPEC, the international oil-producing cartel, is fighting for its life amid tumbling oil prices and members' cheating on their quotas. That, says TIME business writer Bernard Baumohl, is the reason Saudi Arabia yesterday secured an agreement from Venezuela and Mexico cut oil output -- a deal quickly emulated by Kuwait, Iran and the United Arab Emirates...
...impasto of alliterative adjectives got slathered onto public men. George Bernard Shaw was "mocking, mordant, misanthropic." General Erich von Ludendorff was "flagitious, inscrutable, unrelenting." The intent was novelistic. As Luce explained it, "No idea exists outside a human skull--and no human skull exists without hair and a face and a voice--in fact the flesh and blood attributes of a human personality. TIME journalism began by being deeply interested in people, as individuals who were making history, or a small part of it, from week to week. We tried to make our readers see and hear and even smell...