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Despite the favorable tax climate, only a handful of U.S. pharmaceutical firms have set up factories on the island. American enrollment at Grenada's medical school is on the rise after students were evacuated from the island in 1983. But the T-shirt industry, which flourished with brisk sales to U.S. service members, has waned since their departure in 1985. The prospect of increased tourism appears bleak. Grenada's twelve hotels remain half empty during peak season. Cruise ships make regular stops, but the mad dashes of passengers through gift shops are hardly a permanent boon to the economy. Vendors...
Economists have kept a sharp eye on consumers to see whether they have become cautious and tightfisted, but the evidence so far is hazy. Last week domestic automakers reported a brisk 10.8% increase in passenger-vehicle sales during the last ten days of October, compared with the same period last year. Those customers, however, may be people who had already intended to buy a car * and went ahead with those plans in spite of Black Monday. Many car dealers now say business is slowing by as much as 30%. Major retailers, who released October sales figures last week, mostly...
Exhibitors called the fair a success. "It provides a lot of information and business was brisk," said Judy Walker, a child care advisor with Harvard/Radcliffe Child Care...
Volume was brisk by historic standards yesterday but off from recent sessions, with 258.14 million shares changing hands on the Big Board, the 13th-busiest...
...badly undermined the credibility of the 15,000-man Indian peacekeeping force that is patrolling northern and eastern Sri Lanka. The Indian government vowed to disarm the Tigers forcibly if necessary, and by week's end Indian troops had raided rebel camps and arrested 160 guerrillas amid reports of brisk fighting...