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...addition to the sluggish economy, an important factor in the dollar's weakness may be fears that President Reagan, because of his recent brush with cancer, will not be able to serve out his full term. Says Alfred Roth, the chief currency trader at New York City's Chemical Bank: "So much of this market is not just economics. It's pure psychology, and Reagan's health has done a lot to hurt the dollar." Agrees Pierre Rinfret, a New York-based economic consultant: "Confidence in President Reagan's leadership made the dollar a strong, upbeat currency for roughly three...
...comprehensive contract talks. When U.A.W. President Owen Bieber and Tom Miner, Chrysler's vice president of labor relations, shook hands last week to open new negotiations, the circumstances were very different from those surrounding the earlier talks. In 1982 Chrysler was just starting to come back from a brush with bankruptcy, its veins full of bailout money. Today the company is robust, its sales up and Government-backed loans of $1.2 billion paid...
...measure, he is an unlikely leader in today's world. Imprisoned since 1962 on a variety of charges, including conspiracy and sabotage, he has taken no active part in fomenting the black rage that in 1985 spread like a brush fire in the veld, leading to the deaths of more than 850 South Africans, almost all of them nonwhite. His words cannot be legally published in the South African press. Only a few intimates even know what he looks like now; he has not been photographed since 1965. Yet from his cell in Pollsmoor Prison near Cape Town, Nelson Mandela...
...www.chocolateandzucchini.com The blogger here is English-speaking Parisian Clotilde Dusoulier, who professes to love every food-related act, from shopping for ingredients to garnishing a plate to consuming the results, and recounts all of it with unpretentious aplomb. Recipes are indexed. Extras include a Bloxicon page, where you can brush up on French culinary terms from cassoulet to ganache, and a helpful Conversions cheat sheet. Honorable mention: The Accidental Hedonist, written with flair by one Kate Hopkins. Newsy, political and practical all at once (she offers 14 pointers "for better enjoyment of your cheese" in a May 27 post...
With a broad brush-stroke, Joubert paints politicians from the local to the federal level as “crocks of shit...