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...started quitting. Last week Lange was seeking $1,000,000 to launch a new regional magazine. Atlanta had a new editor, Norman Shavin, who agrees with Shelton that the magazine needs more "balance." Which seems to mean that the old, controversial Atlanta is dead. If so, its obituary might borrow a phrase from Publisher Shelton, who feared it had become "an anti-Establishment magazine published in the bosom of the Establishment...
Executive Infighting. The most damaging threat to Mekong development has come from the United Nations. Eager to borrow big money from Robert McNamara's World Bank and other international banks the U.N. shook up the Mekong management two months ago in a way intended to heighten its appeal to Western capitalists and Asian Communists alike. Dr. C. Hart Schaaf, 57, an outspoken and visionary Indiana professor who in ten years as chief executive became known as "Mr. Mekong," was reassigned to Ceylon. U.N. executives felt that the chief should be non-American, particularly if the project is ultimately...
...first time at the press reception, and again at the rink, where she remembered me. She asked me it I didn't want to borrow a pair of jeans (I was wearing a skirt) and insisted that I at least share her blanket...
...sure you don't want to borrow some pants?" Ali asked. "You look so cold, y'know." I'd been sitting there getting colder, so this time I said...
...covert forms of protectionism which discriminate against American exports." In a talk last week to the National Foreign Trade Convention in Manhattan, Stans also promised U.S. exporters additional measures of practical aid. One would add some $750 million to the Export-Import Bank's funds. Exporters can now borrow only limited amounts at the bank's 6% interest rate, and must finance the rest of their sales with private loans at 9% or more. Many foreign competitors can borrow all they need from their governments at low rates-and save a crucial 1% or 2% in financing costs...