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...Credit, killed in 1986, to boost private investment in research as well as new plant and equipment. "I want to emphasize," said Energy chief Watkins, "that this concept of a new partnership between government and industry is not about government attempting to substitute its judgment for that of experienced businessmen and free markets. It is about U.S. economic growth...
...first days after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. initially refrained from collective reprisals. "Let's not get rattled," said a Dec. 10 editorial in the Los Angeles Times. The FBI and the military had been compiling lists of "potentially dangerous" Japanese since 1932, but most were merely teachers, businessmen or journalists. And the lists totaled only about 2,000 names in a community of 127,000 (37% were aliens, known as Issei, the rest American-born Nisei, who theoretically had the same rights as other citizens). "Treat us like Americans," said the Japanese-American Citizens League. "Give us a chance...
...Asian Boyz. They helped swell Long Beach's gang membership to more than 10,000. Mad Dog and the others imitated their enemies. They "kicked back" on street corners and marked their turf with graffiti. Between turf shoot-outs, they also began to extort "protection" money from local businessmen. Fearing reprisals, the merchants have rarely complained. Gang detective Norman Sorenson remembers contacting dozens of Cambodian merchants after police found a detailed list of extortion victims in the car of a Tiny Rascals leader. "They all denied it," says Sorenson. Cambodian gangsters killed their first East Side Longo in a retaliatory...
...industry. Selling such staples as $90 cotton poplin blouses and $365 navy wool blazers, DKNY last year hit $100 million in sales and should reach $140 million this year. Launched less than three years ago, the company is proving to be the salvation of Seventh Avenue. Clothing designers, like businessmen everywhere, tend to fall all over a winning formula, and store racks are groaning with DKNY wannabes. "I call our rivals the Pac-Men," says DKNY's president, Denise Seegal. "They're all coming after us." This fall saw the launch of Company, a division of Ellen Tracy, whose best...
This week Speth's institute will publish a "Compact for a New World," a proposed model for a way rich and poor nations might come to mutually beneficial agreements in Rio on the environment and development. Meeting in Washington last June, a group of activists, businessmen and politicians agreed that poorer southern nations would have an easier time accepting unpalatable initiatives on population stabilization, climate change and deforestation in return for a substantial quid pro quo. Its elements: debt forgiveness, direct financial aid to help end poverty, and technical help to reduce the poor nations' role in global environmental problems...