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...SUPERSTRONG YEN SHOULD DRIVE up the price of parts that Japanese businessman Toshinori Minohara makes for office copiers and force him out of the market. But Minohara is turning the currency's power into an opportunity: instead of expanding in Japan, he recently opened a plant in the city of Dongguan, China, where cheap wages will lower his manufacturing costs. "Nowadays I show my buyers a part that costs 1,500 yen," says Minohara. "But very soon we will be making this in China, and it will cost 1,000 yen. That's how we keep our customers coming back...
Hundreds of rich suitors have wooed SKG. As Spielberg says, "It's like stacking hour over Kennedy Airport." There was, for example, the Middle Eastern businessman who wanted to fly to meet the moguls with a zillion-dollar check in hand, only to be told by his father that he was forbidden to travel because it was the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. He may yet make the trip...
...political rivalries, is the No. 1 issue in the country today. In cities all across the nation, gangs operate with near impunity, practicing fraud and extortion, conducting illegal trade, bribing and corrupting officials and viciously murdering anyone who gets in their way. When Listyev, a popular television host and businessman, was shot down two weeks ago in what police said was a paid-for assassination, it was another brutal killing in a series of shootings, car bombings, kidnappings and gangland battles that have overwhelmed post-Soviet Moscow...
Stickler's Mirkheim is hard to like. A bad liar and a slimy businessman, we despise Mirkheim but we can't help rooting him on as the closest thing to normal in a twisted world...
Just how independent is the commission? TIME's Thompson reports that six of the eight commissioners have some type of conflict that may keep them from voting on certain categories of bases. Example: Alton Cornella, a South Dakota businessman, has been fighting to keep nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base open...